ISBN:
0-521-40190-9
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978-0-521-40190-6
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 341 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
School of American Research Advanced Seminar Series [32]
Series Statement:
A _School of American Research Book [32]
Keywords:
Führer, politischer Evolution, soziale
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Großbritannien
;
Tuareg
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Polynesien
;
Mittelmeerraum
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Griechenland, klassisch
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Mississippi-Kultur
;
Mittelamerika
;
Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Mittelamerika
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Indianer, präkolumbianisch, Südamerika
Abstract:
The study of chiefdoms has moved from preoccupation with their formal characteristics to a concern with their dynamics as political institutions. The contributors to this volume are interested in how ruling elites retain power through control over production and exchange, and then legitimize that control through an elaborate ideology. These case studies look at particular chiefdoms, originating in specific historical conditions. Despite obvious differences between the chiefdoms, certain common underlying processes are revealed. The collection recognizes how complex and interdependent are the sources of power in society, as well as the forces of instability that constantly threaten to tear society apart. Chiefdoms offers a rich and varied interpretation of sociopolitical power. (Verlagsangaben
Description / Table of Contents:
List of contirbutors -- Preface -- 1. The evolution of chiefdoms, Timothy Earle -- 2. Chiefdoms, states, and systems of social evolution, Kristian Kristiansen -- 3. The pattern of change in British prehistory, Richard Bradley -- 4. Property rights and the evolution of chiefdoms, Timothy Earle -- 5. Lords of the waste: predation, pastoral production, and the process of stratification among the Eastern Twaregs, Candelario Sáenz -- 6. Chiefship and competitive involution: the Marquesas Islands of eastern Polynesia, Patrick Kirch -- 7. Trajectories towards social complexity in the later prehistory of the Mediterranean, Antonio Gilman -- 8. Chiefdoms to city-states: the Greek experience, Yale Ferguson -- 9. Contrasting patterns of the Mississippian development, Vincas Steponaitis -- 10. Demography, surplus, and inequality: early political formations in highland Mesoamerica, Gary Feinman -- 11. Pre-Hispanic chiefdom trajectories in Mesoamerica, Central America, and northern South America, Robert Drennan -- References -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 288-327"The seminar "Chiefdoms: their evolutionary significance", was held in Januar 18 to 22, 1988, at the School of American Research" (Preface)Enthält 11 Beiträge
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