02281nam a22002897a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801270007608200140020310000180021724500640023526000490029930000210034836500090036949000940037850509490047252003480142165000200176965000270178965000180181665000160183465000220185065000280187265000410190065000320194170000180197320191212120016.0191031b           ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780521448963  a:International Book Distributorsb:Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhic:114498d:04/10/2019   a306.2 EAR  aEarle,Timothy  aChiefdoms b: power, economy, and ideologyc/ Timothy Earle  aCambridgeb : Cambridge Univ. Press, c1991.  aXII, 341c24cm.   b3492  aA School of American Research book.; School of American Research advanced seminar series.  a	l. 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 Tuaregs Candelario Saenz; 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 Mississippian development Vincas Steponaitis; l0. 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.  aThe study of chiefdoms has moved from a preoccupation with their formal characteristics to a concern with their dynamics as political institutions. The contributors present eleven case studies examining how ruling elites retain power through control over production and exchange, and then legitimize that control through an elaborate ideology.  aSocial sciences  aCulture & institutions  aGesellschaft.  aHerrschaft.  aPolitische Macht.  aChiefdoms -- Congresses  aPolitical anthropology -- Congresses  aSocial status -- Congresses  aEarle,Timothy