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Pathways to Power: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology

Editat de T. Douglas Price, Gary M. Feinman
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 2 sep 2010
There are few questions more central to understanding the prehistory of our species than those regarding the institutionalization of social inequality. Social inequality is manifested in unequal access to goods, information, decision-making, and power. This structure is essential to higher orders of social organization and basic to the operation of more complex societies. An understanding of the transformation from relatively egalitarian societies to a hierarchical organization and socioeconomic stratification is fundamental to our knowledge about the human condition.  In a follow-up to their 1995 book Foundations of Social Inequality, the Editors of this volume have compiled a new and comprehensive group of studies concerning these central questions. When and where does hierarchy appear in human society, and how does it operate?With numerous case studies from the Old and New World, spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups, and complex states, Pathways to Power provides key historical insights into current social and cultural questions.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781441962997
ISBN-10: 1441962999
Pagini: 310
Ilustrații: IX, 298 p. 46 illus.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Ediția:2010
Editura: Springer
Colecția Springer
Seria Fundamental Issues in Archaeology

Locul publicării:New York, NY, United States

Public țintă

Graduate

Cuprins

Social Inequality and the Evolution of Human Social Organization.- On the Evolution of the Human Capacity for Inequality and/or Egalitarianism.- Degrees and Kinds of Inequality.- Gimme That Old Time Religion: Rethinking the Role of Religion in the Emergence of Social Inequality.- Who Benefits from Complexity? A View from Futuna.- Traces of Inequality at the Origins of Agriculture in the Ancient Near East.- Decentralized Complexity: The Case of Bronze Age Northern Europe.- Bitter Arrows and Generous Gifts: WhatWas a ‘King’ in the European Iron Age?.- A Dual-Processual Perspective on the Power and Inequality in the Contemporary United States: Framing Political Economy for the Present and the Past.

Recenzii

"While most archaeologists are interested in origins, only a few wish to investigate the "big picture". Most authors are well known from their publications and conference presentations, and their contributions are thoughtful, but I preferred Pathways."
Thomas N. Huffman
South African Archaeological Bulletin

Notă biografică

T. Douglas Price is the Director of the Laboratory for Archaeological Chemistry at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Gary M. Feinman is Curator, Mesoamerican and Central American Anthropology, The Field Museum, Chicago, IL.

Textul de pe ultima copertă

There are few questions more central to understanding the prehistory of our species than those regarding the institutionalization of social inequality. Social inequality is manifested in unequal access to goods, information, decision-making, and power. This structure is essential to higher orders of social organization and basic to the operation of more complex societies. An understanding of the transformation from relatively egalitarian societies to a hierarchical organization and socioeconomic stratification is fundamental to our knowledge about the human condition.  In a follow-up to their 1995 book Foundations of Social Inequality, the Editors of this volume have compiled a new and comprehensive group of studies concerning these central questions. When and where does hierarchy appear in human society, and how does it operate? With numerous case studies from the Old and New World, spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups, and complex states, Pathways to Power provides key historical insights into current social and cultural questions.

Caracteristici

Follow up to the very popular Foundations in Social Inequality, with brand new research and case studies Authors are all well-known experts in archaeology, and particularly in the development of social hierarchies Case studies have implications for understanding the development of social inequalities throughout different time periods and geographic regions, including the present day Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras