| Description |
xvii, 347 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
One world archaeology ; 4 |
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One world archaeology ; 4
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| Contents |
Introduction : the comparative analysis of social and political transitions / John Gledhill -- Small fish in a big sea : geographical dispersion and sociopolitical centralization in the Marshall Islands / Laurence Marshall Carucci -- Evolution, sequential hierarchy, and areal integration : the case of traditional Samoan society / Thomas Bargatzky -- The Hawaiian transformation of ancestral Polynesian society : conceptualizing chiefly states / Matthew Spriggs -- State formation and uneven development / Christine Ward Gailey and Thomas C. Patterson -- Subsistence, social control of resources and the development of complex society in the Valley of Mexico / Brigitte Boehm de Lameiras -- Hierarchization in Maya segmentary states / John W. Fox -- A cycle of development and decline in the early phases of civilization in Palestine : and analysis of the intermediate bronze period (2200-2000 BC) / Talia Shay -- Emerging towns in Benin and Ishan (Nigeria) AD 500-1500 / P.J. Darling -- Control of resources in the medieval period / C.G. Harfield -- Copper production and eastern Mediterranean trade : the rise of complex society on Cyprus / A. Bernard Knapp -- Introduction : literacy and social complexity / Mogens Trolle Larsen -- Literacy, social organization, and the archeological record : the case of early Egypt / John Baines -- Power and authority in early historic Scotland : Pictish symbol stones and other documents / Stephen T. Driscoll -- Literacy and power : the introduction and use of writing in early historic Scotland / Margaret R. Nieke -- Inventions of writing / Michael Harbsmeier -- Patrimonialism, involution, and the agrarian question in Java : a Weberian analysis of class relations and servile labour / J.I. (Hans) Bakker -- Legacies of empire : political centralization and class formation in the Hispanic-American world / John Gledhill -- The centralization of education in Mexico : subordination and autonomy / Humberto González Chávez |
| Notes |
Papers from the World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton, England, in September 1986 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Political anthropology -- Congresses.
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Political anthropology.
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Social archaeology -- Congresses.
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Social archaeology.
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Social structure -- Congresses.
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Social structure.
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State, The -- Origin -- Congresses.
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State, The -- Origin.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Bender, Barbara.
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Gledhill, John.
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Larsen, Mogens Trolle.
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World Archaeological Congress (1st : 1986 : Southampton, England)
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| LC no. |
88016915 |
| ISBN |
0044450230 (alk. paper) |
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