ISBN:
9780511558238
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (x, 176 pages)
Series Statement:
New directions in archaeology
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.2/096
Keywords:
Funde
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Politik
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Political anthropology / Africa
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Social archaeology / Africa
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Archaeology and state / Africa
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Sozialarchäologie
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Archäologie
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Politische Anthropologie
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Altertümer
;
Afrika
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Africa / Politics and government
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Africa / Antiquities
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Afrika
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Aufsatzsammlung
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Aufsatzsammlung
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Afrika
;
Altertümer
;
Afrika
;
Archäologie
;
Afrika
;
Politische Anthropologie
;
Sozialarchäologie
Abstract:
Recent critiques of neoevolutionary formulations that focus primarily on the development of powerful hierarchies have called for broadening the empirical base for complex society studies. Redressing the neglect of sub-Saharan examples in comparative discussions on complex society, this book considers how case material from the region can enhance our understanding of the nature, origins and development of complexity. The archaeological, historical and anthropological case materials are relevant to a number of recent concerns, revealing how complexity has emerged and developed in a variety of ways. Contributors engage important theoretical issues, including the continuing influence of deeply embedded evolutionary notions in archaeological concepts of complexity, the importance of alternative modes of complex organization such as flexible hierarchies, multiple overlapping hierarchies, and horizontal differentiation, and the significance of different forms of power. The distinguished list of contributors include historians, archaeologists and anthropologists
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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Pathways to complexity: an African perspective
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The segmentary state and the ritual phase in political economy
,
Perceiving variability in time and space: the evolutionary mapping of African societies
,
Western representations of urbanism and invisible African towns
,
Modeling political organization in large-scale settlement clusters: a case study from the Inland Niger Delta
,
Sacred centers and urbanization in West Central Africa
,
Permutations in patrimonialism and populism: the Aghem chiefdoms of Western Cameroon
,
Wonderful society: the Burgess Shale creatures, Mandara polities, and the nature of prehistory
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Material culture and the dialectics of identity in the Kalahari: AD 700-1700
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Seeking and keeping power in Bunyoro-Kitara, Uganda
,
The power of symbols and the symbols of power through time: probing the Luba past
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Pathways of political development in equatorial Africa and neo-evolutionary theory
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511558238
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