ISBN:
0-521-38252-1
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978-0-521-38252-6
Language:
English
Pages:
xxi, 310 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [30]
Series Statement:
A _School of American Research Book [30]
Keywords:
Anthropologie, politische Sozio-politische Organisation
;
Evolution, soziale
;
Politisches System
;
Politischer Wandel
;
Anthropologie, marxistische
Abstract:
Throughout the world, the development of agriculture produced dramatic changes in human cultural systems. As people settled down in one locality, populations grew rapidly, patterns of subsistence were transformed, technology became more advanced, and the nature of social and political relations changed. People no longer interacted exclusively with kin, as they had in the past when organized in bands, and new forms of political relationships between groups were established. The emergence of these political systems was the first step in the evolution of the state. The contributors to this book rely on archaeological and ethnographic case studies to examine the social, economic, and political processes behind the development of these "middle-range"?political systems, located on a continuum between communally organized hunter-gatherer bands and stratified, centralized chiefdoms and states. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Foreword by Jonathan Haas .. Preface by Steadman Upham -- 1. Decoupling the processes of political evolution, Steadman Upham -- Part I Evolutionary Perspectives and Explanatory Frameworks -- 2. Population, permanent agriculture, and polities: unpacking the evolutionary portmanteau, Robert McC. Netting -- 3. Selection and evolution in nonhierarchical organization, David P. Braun -- 4. Analog or digital?: Toward a generic framework for explaining the development of emergent political systems, Steadman Upham -- Part II The Role of Decision-Making, Productive, and Environmental Processes in Political Change -- 5. Maintaining economic equality in opposition to complexity: an Iroquoian study, Bruce G. Trigger -- 6. One path to the heights: negotiating political inequality in the Sausa of Peru, Christine A. Hastorf -- 7. Agriculture, sedentism, and environment in the evolution of political system, Stephen Plog -- Part III Marxist Views of Political Change -- 8. Politics and surplus flow in prehistoric communal societies, Dean J. Saitta and Arthur S. Keene -- 9. Primitive communism and the origin of social inequality, Richard B. Lee -- 10. The dynamics of nonhierarchical societies, Barbara Bender -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 264-303"Advanced Seminar at the School of American Research "The Development of Political Systems in Prehistoric Sedentary Societes" convened in April 1986" (Preface)Enthält 10 Beiträge
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