Feast, famine or fighting? : multiple pathways to social complexity /: multiple pathways to social complexity. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Richard J. Chacon, Rubén G. Mendoza, editors.
• Editors: Chacon, Richard J, 1959-; Mendoza, Rubén G, 1956-
• Contents: Chapter 1: -- Introduction -- Chapter 2: Violence, Warriors, and Rock Art in Bronze Age Scandinavia -- Chapter 3: Societal Dynamics of Prestate Societies of the North Central European Plains, 600-900 CE -- Chapter 4: Trade and State Formation in Ancient East African Coast and Southern Zambezia -- Chapter 5: Feasting, Social Complexity and the Emergence of the Early Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia: A View from Göbekli Tepe -- Chapter 6: Highly Stratified Societies without Permanent Leadership: Yi in Liangshan of Southwestern China -- Chapter 7: Coercive Power and State Formation in Northern Vietnam -- Chapter 8: The Emergence of Sociopolitical Complexity: Evidence from Contact-era New Guinea -- Chapter 9: Tibenuk and Chuji: Status Attainment and Collective Action in Egalitarian Settings -- Chapter 10: Early Pueblo Great House Communities and Their Leaders: The Transformation of Community Leadership in the Mesa Verde and Chaco Regions, A.D. 625-1025 -- Chapter 11: The Development of Complex Societies in Eastern North America: The Roles of Feasting, Famine, and Fighting -- Chapter 12: The Feast before Famine and Fighting: The Origins and Consequences of Social Complexity in the Mirador Basin, Guatemala -- Chapter 13: Tollan Teotihuacan: Multiethnic Mosaics, Corporate Interaction, and Social Complexity in Mesoamerica -- Chapter 14: Pathways to Social Complexity in the Norte Chico Region of Peru -- Chapter 15: How Chiefdom and Early State Social Structures Resolve Collective Action Problems -- Chapter 16: Commentary -- Chapter 17: Multiple Pathways to Large-Scale Human Cooperative Networks: A Reframing.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxix, 490 pages), illustrations (some color), maps (some color)
• Subjects: 303.4; Social sciences; Social evolution; Social archaeology; Anthropology; Ecology; Archaeology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General; Social archaeology; Social evolution; Science -- Life Sciences -- Ecology; Social Science -- Archaeology; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Animal ecology; Archaeology; Social theory; Social Science -- Anthropology -- General; Anthropology; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 3319484028; 9783319484020
• Related ISBNs: 331948401X; 9783319484013
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed on February 07, 2017).
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