| Description |
xvi, 290 pages ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: 11.Epilogue. Theories on the State and the Archaeology of the State: Continuities and Complicity -- Individual and...society? -- Social relationships -- Morality, identity, and State -- Modern archaeology and State |
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Contents note continued: Hegelian philosophy and his triads -- The elements of the philosophy of right -- The State -- Conclusion: problems with the Hegelian State -- 7.The Critique of the State in Marx -- From idealist humanism to historical materialism -- The historical conditions of the State: The German Ideology -- The historical conditions of the State: The Formen -- Forms of property and State -- The future of the State -- Marxist tradition and the State -- 8.Evolutionism and State -- Lewis Henry Morgan (1818--81) -- Savagery -- Barbarism -- Civilization -- The meanings of evolutionary periodization -- Neo-evolutionism -- Elman R. Service (1915--96) -- Bands -- Tribes -- Chiefdom -- Primitive States and archaic civilizations -- Egalitarian or segmental societies -- Chiefdom societies -- Archaic civilization and State -- Morton H. Fried (1923--86) -- The egalitarian society -- Hierarchized or rank societies -- Stratified societies -- The State -- |
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Contents note continued: Neo-evolutionism: discussion and assessment -- Conclusion -- pt. II ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE STATE -- 9.Archaeology and Research on the State -- Definition of the object of study -- The impact of V. G. Childe (1892--1957) -- Processual archaeology and research on the formation of the State -- Complexity -- Evolution, typologies, and surveys -- Empirical regularity and explanation -- The explanation of change: the reasons for the rise of civilizations -- Critical remarks -- Archaeology of the State in post-modern times -- 10.Towards a Marxist Archaeology of the State -- Notes for archaeological research on the State: theory -- The production of social life -- Division of tasks and the social division of production -- General production and the ̀place' of politics -- The formation of the State -- The politics of State -- The state-of-the-world -- Notes for archaeological research on the State: method -- |
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Machine generated contents note: pt. I THEORIES ABOUT THE STATE -- 1.The Classical Conception -- Plato (428--347 BC) -- Social classes in Plato's Republic -- Forms of government -- Conclusion -- Aristotle (384--322 BC) -- Forms of government -- Conclusions -- Differences and similarities within the classical conception -- 2.The State according to Christianity -- Precedents of Christian political thought -- St Thomas of Aquinas (1225--74) -- Conclusions -- 3.The Renaissance of the State -- Machiavelli (1469--1527) -- Conclusions -- 4.The Seventeenth Century: Fear and Property -- Thomas Hobbes (1588--1679): the reasonable wolf -- Individual and society -- Conclusion -- John Locke (1632--1704): the instigator of ̀human rights' -- Conclusion -- 5.The Eighteenth Century: Lights and Shadows in the State -- Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712--78) -- Rousseau and political participation -- Conclusion -- 6.The Absolute State -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770--1831) -- |
| Summary |
This book, newly translated from the original Spanish, first offers a summary of the main theories about what we today call the 'State', a category that draws together various interests in the research into the past of human societies and, at the same time, inspires passionate political and ideological debate. The authors review political philosophies from Greek antiquity to contemporary evolutionism. They then examine how the State has been viewed and studied within archaeology in the twentieth century, and offer an alternative approach based upon historical materialism. Their argument that this method can be profitably used to study the archaeological record is a sophisticated and creative contribution to current theory, and will inspire debate about its implications for our understanding of human history |
| Notes |
Originally published as: Arqueología del origen del Estado : las teorías. Barcelona : Bellaterra, 2007 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Translated from the Spanish |
| Subject |
Political science -- History.
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Social archaeology.
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State, The -- Origin.
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| Author |
Micó Pérez, Rafael.
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Smith, Peter.
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| LC no. |
2011929250 |
| ISBN |
0199557845 |
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9780199557844 |
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