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028			_aInternational Book Distributors _b;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002 _c;112675 _d;04/09/2018
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100			_aGary M Feinman _a; Joyce Marcus
245			_aArchaic states _c/Gary M Feinman
260			_aSanta Fe, N.M. _b : School of American Research Press _c, ©1998.
300			_axiv, 427 pages _b: illustrations, maps _c; 24 cm.
365			_b4260
490			_aSchool of American Research advanced seminar series.
505			_a 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.
520			_a 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.
650			_aSocial Sciences
655			_aPolitical anthropology _bCivilization, Ancient
700			_aJoyce Marcus
942			_cBOOK
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