Feast, Famine or Fighting?: Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3319839330 ISBN 13 : 9783319839332

Editeur : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018

Synopsis

Chapter 1: .- Introduction.- Chapter 2: Violence, Warriors, and Rock Art in Bronze Age Scandinavia.- Chapter 3: Societal Dynamics of Prestate Societies of the North Central European Plains, 600-900 CE.- Chapter 4: Trade and State Formation in Ancient East African Coast and Southern Zambezia.- Chapter 5: Feasting, Social Complexity and the Emergence of the Early Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia: A View from Göbekli Tepe.- Chapter 6: Highly Stratified Societies without Permanent Leadership: Yi in Liangshan of Southwestern China.- Chapter 7: Coercive Power and State Formation in Northern Vietnam.- Chapter 8: The Emergence of Sociopolitical Complexity: Evidence from Contact-era New Guinea.- Chapter 9: Tibenuk and Chuji: Status Attainment and Collective Action in Egalitarian Settings.- Chapter 10: Early Pueblo Great House Communities and Their Leaders: The Transformation of Community Leadership in the Mesa Verde and Chaco Regions, A.D. 625-1025.- Chapter 11: The Development of Complex Societies in Eastern North America: The Roles of Feasting, Famine, and Fighting.- Chapter 12: The Feast before Famine and Fighting: The Origins and Consequences of Social Complexity in the Mirador Basin, Guatemala.- Chapter 13: Tollan Teotihuacan: Multiethnic Mosaics, Corporate Interaction, and Social Complexity in Mesoamerica.- Chapter 14: Pathways to Social Complexity in the Norte Chico Region of Peru.- Chapter 15: How Chiefdom and Early State Social Structures Resolve Collective Action Problems.- Chapter 16: Commentary.- Chapter 17: Multiple Pathways to Large-Scale Human Cooperative Networks: A Reframing.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Richard J. Chacon is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Winthrop University. He has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Amazonia among the Yanomamo of Venezuela, the Yora of Peru and the Achuar (Shiwiar) of Ecuador. In the Andes, he has conducted ethnographic fieldwork among the Otavalo and Cotacachi Indians of Highland Ecuador. His research interests include collective action, optimal foraging theory, indigenous subsistence strategies, natural resource conservation, warfare, belief systems, the development of social complexity, ethnohistory, ethics and the effects of globalization on indigenous peoples.

Dr. Rubén G. Mendoza is Professor and Chair of the Division of Social, Behavioral, and Global Studies at the California State University, Monterey Bay. He has conducted archaeological and ethnohistorical investigations in California, Colorado, the US Southwest, and Mesoamerica. His research interests include Mesoamerican and South American civilizations and social complexity, long-distance trade and exchange, conflict interaction, and Hispanicized Indian and Amerindian traditional technologies and material cultures. In addition, he is the coordinator for both the Archaeological Science, Technology, and Visualization, and Global Studies, programs at CSU Monterey Bay.

Contact information: Dr. Rubén G. Mendoza, Ph.D., RPA, Professor/Chair, Division of Social, Behavioral & Global Studies, California State University, Monterey Bay, Seaside, CA, USA. E-mail: rumendoza@csumb.edu

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer International Publishing AG
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3319839330
• ISBN 13: 9783319839332
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 519
• Éditeur: Chacon Richard J., Mendoza Rubén G.
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