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Archaic states /Gary M Feinman

By: Gary M Feinman ; Joyce MarcusContributor(s): Joyce MarcusMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: International Book Distributors | ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002Series: School of American Research advanced seminar seriesPublication details: Santa Fe, N.M. : School of American Research Press , ©1998Description: xiv, 427 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmISBN: 9780933452992Subject(s): Social SciencesGenre/Form: Political anthropologyDDC classification: 306.2 FEI

Contents:

The ground plans of archaic states / Kent V. Flannery -- The peaks and valleys of ancient states : an extension of the dynamic model / Joyce Marcus -- Scale and social organization : perspectives on the archaic state / Gary M. Feinman -- Beyond centralization : steps toward a theory of egalitarian behavior in archaic states / Richard E. Blanton -- Uruk states in southwestern Iran / Henry T. Wright -- Order, legitimacy, and wealth in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia / John Baines and Norman Yoffee -- Sociocultural complexity without the state : the Indus civilization / Gregory L. Possehl -- Inka strategies of incorporation and governance / Craig Morris -- Warfare and status rivalry : lowland Maya and Polynesian comparisons / David Webster.

Summary: In this volume, the authors highlight the diversity and instability of ancient states and how widely they have varied through time and across space. Archaic States presents new comparative studies of early states in the Old and New Worlds, including the Near East, India and Pakistan, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. In the process, it helps to define key avenues for research and discussion in the decades ahead.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
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The ground plans of archaic states / Kent V. Flannery --
The peaks and valleys of ancient states : an extension of the dynamic model / Joyce Marcus --
Scale and social organization : perspectives on the archaic state / Gary M. Feinman --
Beyond centralization : steps toward a theory of egalitarian behavior in archaic states / Richard E. Blanton --
Uruk states in southwestern Iran / Henry T. Wright --
Order, legitimacy, and wealth in ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia / John Baines and Norman Yoffee --
Sociocultural complexity without the state : the Indus civilization / Gregory L. Possehl --
Inka strategies of incorporation and governance / Craig Morris --
Warfare and status rivalry : lowland Maya and Polynesian comparisons / David Webster.

In this volume, the authors highlight the diversity and instability of ancient states and how widely they have varied through time and across space. Archaic States presents new comparative studies of early states in the Old and New Worlds, including the Near East, India and Pakistan, Egypt, Mesoamerica, and the Andes. In the process, it helps to define key avenues for research and discussion in the decades ahead.

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