02331nam a22003137a 4500 55861 55861 20191212120016.0 191031b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780521448963 :International Book Distributors :Flat No 14, Prakash Apartment 5 Ansari Road Darya Ganj New Delhi :114498 :04/10/2019 306.2 EAR Earle,Timothy Chiefdoms : power, economy, and ideology / Timothy Earle Cambridge : Cambridge Univ. Press, 1991. XII, 341 24cm. 3492 A School of American Research book.; School of American Research advanced seminar series. 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. The 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. Social sciences Culture & institutions Gesellschaft. Herrschaft. Politische Macht. Chiefdoms -- Congresses Political anthropology -- Congresses Social status -- Congresses Earle,Timothy BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2019-10-31 International Book Distributors 3492.00 0 306.2 EAR 27054 2019-10-31 00:00:00 2019-10-31 BOOK