Global Perspectives on the Collapse of Complex Systems: Anthropology Anthropological Papers - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0912535156 ISBN 13 : 9780912535159

Editeur : University of New Mexico,Maxwell Museum of Anthropology,U.S., 2009

Synopsis

The recurrent collapse of human societies is a topic that is at once both fascinating and potentially troubling, and this edited volume offers some new thoughts on this important subject. The introduction discusses the topic at a theoretical level, and references a variety of cases (both past and present) from around the globe to illustrate various conditions and circumstances under which collapse and transformation occur. Nine chapters present specific studies from Iron Age central Europe, the Nilgiri Hills of south India, the early Bronze Age of north-central China, Maori New Zealand, Peru (Moche, Nasca, and the Chiribaya chiefdom of the south coast), late prehistoric and early historic Amazonia and the Caribbean, and the Cahokia chiefdom of eastern North America. With its global scope and diversity of case studies, the book expands our understanding of the various dimensions and historical circumstances faced by human societies that ultimately failed.

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À propos de l?auteur

Jim A. Railey is a principal investigator with SWCA Environmental Consultants in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He has been involved in North American archaeology for thirty-two years. Richard Martin Reycraft is the director of preservation for the New Mexico State Monuments. His specialties include Andean archaeology and ruins stabilization. He co-edited Environmental Disasters and the Archaeology of Human Response and edited Us and Them: Archaeology and Ethnicity in the Andes.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of New Mexico,Maxwell Museum of Anthropology,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0912535156
• ISBN 13: 9780912535159
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 181
• Éditeur: Railey Jimmy A., Reycraft Richard Martin
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