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KlappentextFactionalism is an important force of social transformation, and this volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires. The case studies, from a range of New World societies, represent all levels of non-egalitarian societies and a wide variety of ecological settings in the New World. They document the effects of factionalism on the structure of particular polities: for example, how it might have led to the growth of social inequality, or to changing patterns of chiefly authority, or to state formation and expansion, or institutional specialisation. The work is a creative and substantial contribution to our understanding of the political dynamics in early state society, and will interest archaeologists, anthropologists, political scientists and historians.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-521-54584-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Erscheinungsjahr2003
Erscheinungsdatum18.10.2003
Seiten248 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
MasseBreite 189 mm, Höhe 246 mm, Dicke 14 mm
Gewicht488 g
Artikel-Nr.13779223
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