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9780415122559

State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization

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  • ISBN13:

    9780415122559

  • ISBN10:

    0415122554

  • Format: Nonspecific Binding
  • Copyright: 1995-12-20
  • Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

The traditional Eurocentric view of state formation and the rise of civilization is vigorously challeged in this unusually broad-ranging, up-to-date and innovative book. Using research from archaeology, ethnology, and anthropology, the authors examine the dynamics of political centralization, the nature of social inequalities, state formation, the nature of bureaucracy and the role of literacy in a variety of historical and geographical contexts. They examine the developments and resistences encountered in state formation and the mechanisms which produce cumulative development on a world-historical scale. United by a common committment to dialogue and to the idea that archaeology cannot exist in isolation from other social and historical sciences, this volume will be essential to all those working on issues of social inequality.

Table of Contents

List of contributors
Foreword
Preface
Introduction: the comparative analysis of social and political transitionsp. 1
Small fish in a big sea: geographical dispersion and sociopolitical centralization in the Marshall Islandsp. 33
Evolution, sequential hierarchy, and areal integration: the case of traditional Samoan societyp. 43
The Hawaiian transformation of Ancestral Polynesian Society: conceptualizing chiefly statesp. 57
State formation and uneven developmentp. 77
Subsistence, social control of resources and the development of complex society in the Valley of Mexicop. 91
Hierarchization in Maya segmentary statesp. 103
A cycle of development and decline in the early phases of civilization in Palestine: an analysis of the Intermediate Bronze Period (2200-2000 BC)p. 113
Emerging towns in Benin and Ishan (Nigeria) AD 500-1500p. 121
Control of resources in the medieval periodp. 137
Copper production and eastern Mediterranean trade: the rise of complex society on Cyprusp. 149
Introduction: literacy and social complexityp. 173
Literacy, social organization, and the archaeological record: the case of early Egyptp. 192
Power and authority in Early Historic Scotland: Pictish symbol stones and other documentsp. 215
Literacy and power: the introduction and use of writing in Early Historic Scotlandp. 237
Inventions of writingp. 253
Patrimonialism, involution, and the agrarian question in Java: a Weberian analysis of class relations and servile labourp. 279
Legacies of empire: political centralization and class formation in the Hispanic-American worldp. 302
The centralization of education in Mexico: subordination and autonomyp. 320
Indexp. 344
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