The Evolution of Political Systems
Sociopolitics in Small Scale Sedentary Societies
Published on 20. September 1990
Book
Hardback
331 pages
978-0-521-38252-6 (ISBN)
Description
A study based on archaeological and ethnographic case studies examining the social, economic and political processes behind the development of political systems, located on a continuum between communally organized hunter-gatherer bands and stratified, centralized chiefdoms and states.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
642 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-38252-6 (9780521382526)
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List of tables List of figures Foreword by JONATHAN HAAS Preface 1. Decoupling the processes of political evolution STEADMAN UPHAM SECTION I- EVOLUTIONARY PERSPECTIVES AND EXPLANATORY EVOLUTION 2. Population, permanent agriculture, and polities: unpacking the evolutionary portmaneau ROBERT McC. NETTING 3. Selection and evolution in non-hierarchical organisation DAVID P. BRAUN 4. Analog or digital?: toward a generic framework for explaining the development of emergent political systems STEADMAN UPHAM SECTION II - THE ROLE OF DECISION-MAKING, PRODUCTIVE AND ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESSES IN POLITICAL CHANGE 5. Maintaining economic equality in opposition to complexity: an Iroquoian case 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 systems STEPHEN PLOG SECTION 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 nonhierarchival societies BARBARA BENDER