Creation of Inequality - How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set Stage for Monarchy, Slavery,

Informationen zum Autor Kent Flannery is James B. Griffin Distinguished University Professor of AnthropologicalArchaeology and Curator, Environmental Archaeology at the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan. Klappentext Flannery and Marcus demonstrate that the rise of inequality was not simply the result of population increase, food surplus, or the accumulation of valuables but resulted from conscious manipulation of the unique social logic that lies at the core of every human group. Reversing the social logic can reverse inequality, they argue, without violence.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents Preface Part I: Starting Out Equal One - Genesis and Exodus Two - Rousseau's "State of Nature" Three - Ancestors and Enemies Four - Why Our Ancestors Had Religion and the Arts Five - Inequality without Agriculture Part II: Balancing Prestige and Equality Six - Agriculture and Achieved Renown Seven - The Ritual Buildings of Achievement-Based Societies Eight - The Prehistory of the Ritual House Nine - Prestige and Equality in Four Native American Societies Part III: Societies That Made Inequality Hereditary Ten - The Rise and Fall of Hereditary Inequality in Farming Societies Eleven - Three Sources of Power in Chiefly Societies Twelve - From Ritual House to Temple in the Americas Thirteen - Aristocracy without Chiefs Fourteen - Temples and Inequality in Early Mesopotamia Fifteen - The Chiefly Societies in Our Backyard Sixteen - How to Turn Rank into Stratification: Tales of the South Pacific Part IV: Inequality in Kingdoms and Empires Seventeen - How to Create a Kingdom Eighteen - Three of the New World's First- Generation Kingdoms Nineteen - The Land of the Scorpion King Twenty - Black Ox Hides and Golden Stools Twenty-One - The Nursery of Civilization Twenty-Two - Graft and Imperialism Twenty-Three - How New Empires Learn from Old Part V: Resisting Inequality Twenty-Four - Inequality and Natural Law Notes Sources of Illustrations Index

Bericht

Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus have done a remarkable job in synthesizing the two key disciplines of social anthropology and archaeology, and their book represents a significant advance in our understanding of the evolution of complex societies.
-- Peter Turchin Times Literary Supplement
This is a work of profound importance... [It] yields insights into a multitude of societies in the recent and prehistoric past... Flannery and Marcus's magnum opus... [This] is a deeply impressive achievement.
-- Steven Mithen London Review of Books
Extraordinarily erudite... It would be an excellent addition to collections on the rise of civilization or on how to use the data gathered by cultural anthropologists and archaeologists to understand broad patterns of social change. Professionals in the field will also benefit from this tour de force by two of archaeology's most provocative scholars.
-- L. L. Johnson Choice
This provocative work, likely to become an important contribution to the literature of social and political anthropology, will be of interest both to scholars in the field and to anthropology and archaeology enthusiasts seeking understanding of the development and perpetuation of inequality in human societies.
-- Elizabeth Salt Library Journal
The origin of inequality is one of the most basic questions about human societies. We all arose from egalitarian hunter/gatherer ancestors. Why, then, do almost all of us poor peasants now tolerate affluent leaders, whether they are democratically elected presidents or military dictators? In this clear, readable survey, the distinguished archaeologists Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus extract the answers by comparing the histories of societies over the whole world for the last 10,000 years. This book will become the standard account of long-term political evolution.
-- Jared Diamond, Professor of Geography, University of California, Los Angeles, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel and Collapse
By carefully articulating and integrating archaeological and ethnographic data, Flannery and Marcus present a panoramic view of the development of particular cultures in various parts of the world. Moreover, in selecting case studies the authors have gone beyond the familiar examples so often cited in anthropology textbooks. The Creation of Inequality promises to be a landmark work.
-- Robert L. Carneiro, Ph.D., Curator Emeritus and Professor Emeritus, Anthropology, Richard Gilder Graduate School at the American Museum of Natural History
Flannery and Marcus are two of the most distinguished anthropological archaeologists in the world. The Creation of Inequality distills two lifetimes of work on the origin and evolution of complex societies throughout the ancient world. This work brings much of this together in an eminently readable and fascinating way.
-- Charles S. Stanish, Ph.D., Director, Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, and Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Kent Flannery, Kent V Flannery, Kent V. Marcus Flannery, Joyce Marcus
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.05.2012
• EAN: 9780674064690
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06469-0
• Seiten: 648
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Allgemeines, Lexika; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien