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Author Fargher, Lane F

Title Alternative Pathways to Complexity A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis
Published Norman University Press of Colorado 2016

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Description 1 Online-Ressource (423 Seiten)
Contents List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Lane F. Fargher, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, and Cynthia L. Bedell -- Section 1: Mesoamerican Cases -- Chapter 1. It Was the Economy, Stupid -- Stephen A. Kowalewski -- Chapter 2. Alternative Pathways to Power in Formative Oaxaca -- Arthur A. Joyce and Sarah B. Barber -- Chapter 3. Built Space as Political Fields: Community versus Lineage Strategies in the Tequila Valleys -- Christopher S. Beekman -- Chapter 4. Complexity without Centralization: Corporate Power in Postclassic Jalisco -- Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza
Summary Chapter 5. Central Precinct Plaza Replication and Corporate Groups in Mesoamerica - Barbara L. Stark -- Chapter 6. Featherwork as a Commodity Complex in the Late Postclassic Mesoamerican World System - Frances F. Berdan -- Chapter 7. Classic Maya Marketplaces and Exchanges: Examining Market Competition as a Factor for Understanding Commodity Distributions - Lisa J. LeCount -- Section 2: Old World Cases -- Chapter 8. Enduring Nations and Emergent States: Rulership, Subjecthood, and Power in Early Scandinavia - T.L. Thurston
Chapter 9. The Bakitara (Banyoro) of Uganda and Collective Action Theory - Peter Robertshaw -- Chapter 10. Cognitive Codes and Collective Action at Mari and the Indus - Rita Wright -- Chapter 11. "We Shape Our Buildings and Afterwards Our Buildings Shape Us": Interpreting Architectural Evolution in a Sinhalese Village - Deborah Winslow -- Section 3: Cross-Cultural Studies -- Chapter 12. Network Strategy and War - Peter N. Peregrine and Carol R. Ember -- Chapter 13. Framing the Rise and Variability of Past Complex Societies - Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas
Chapter 14. Pathways to Power: Corporate and Network Strategies, Staple and Wealth Finance, and Primary and Secondary States - Tim Earle -- Chapter 15. Corporate Power Strategies, Collective Action, and Control of Principals: A Cross-Cultural Perspective - Lane F. Fargher -- References -- List of Contributors -- Index
Related To Print version Alternative Pathways to Complexity : A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis. Norman : University Press of Colorado, ©2016 9781607325321
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Subject Archaeology -- Cross-cultural studies
Architecture and archaeology.
Economic anthropology.
Social archaeology.
Technological complexity.
Archaeology
Architecture and archaeology
Economic anthropology
Social archaeology
Technological complexity
Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies
Form Electronic book
Author Heredia Espinoza, Verenice Y., BeteiligteR.
Espinoza, Verenice Y. Heredia, BeteiligteR.
Fargher, Lane F., BeteiligteR.
ISBN 9781607325338
1607325330
9781607325321
1607325322