Transition to Statehood in the New World

Klappentext This 1982 collection investigates why complex, highly stratified societies emerged at several locations in the New World at the same point in prehistory. Zusammenfassung This 1982 collection of eight original anthropological essays provides an exciting synthesis of theory and practice in one of the key issues of contemporary cultural evolutionary thought. The contributors ask why complex! highly stratified societies emerged at several locations in the New World at the same point in prehistory. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Introduction: 1. Issues in the study of New World state formation Grant D. Jones and Robert R. Kautz; Part II. Sociopolitical Factors in State Formation: 2. The chiefdom: precursor of the state Robert L. Carneiro; 3. Class conflict and the state in the New World Jonathan Haas; 4. The ecological basis for New World state formation: general and local model building Mark N. Cohen; 5. The transition to statehood as seen from the mouth of a cave Richard S. MacNeish; Part IV. Ideological Factors in State Formation: 6. Religion and the rise of Mesoamerican states Michael D. Coe; 7. The nature and role of religious diffusion in the early stages of state formation: an example from Peruvian prehistory Richard W. Keatinge; 8. Civilization as a state of mind: the cultural evolution of the Lowland Maya David A. Friedel; Works cited; Index.

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• Authors: Jones Grant D., Grant D. Jones, Grant D. Kautz Jones, Jones Grant D., Robert R. Kautz, Kautz Robert R., Kautz Robert R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521172691
• ISBN: 978-0-521-17269-1
• No. of pages: 266
• Series: New Directions in Archaeology; New Directions in Archaeology
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; North America, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology by period / region, North America (USA and Canada)