Alternative Pathways to Complexity : A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis /: A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural Analysis. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Lane F. Fargher, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza.
• Editors: Fargher, Lane F; Heredia Espinoza, Verenice Y
• Contents: <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-v' class='sequence-1'>Contents <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-ix' class='sequence-2'>List of Figures <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-xiii' class='sequence-3'>List of Tables <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-3' class='sequence-4'>Introduction - Lane F. Fargher, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, and Cynthia L. Bedell <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-13' class='sequence-5'>Section 1: Mesoamerican Cases <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-15' class='sequence-6'>Chapter 1. It Was the Economy, Stupid - Stephen A. Kowalewski <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-41' class='sequence-7'>Chapter 2. Alternative Pathways to Power in Formative Oaxaca - Arthur A. Joyce and Sarah B. Barber <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-59' class='sequence-8'>Chapter 3. Built Space as Political Fields: Community versus Lineage Strategies in the Tequila Valleys - Christopher S. Beekman <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-79' class='sequence-9'>Chapter 4. Complexity without Centralization: Corporate Power in Postclassic Jalisco - Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-105' class='sequence-10'>Chapter 5. Central Precinct Plaza Replication and Corporate Groups in Mesoamerica - Barbara L. Stark <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-131' class='sequence-11'>Chapter 6. Featherwork as a Commodity Complex in the Late Postclassic Mesoamerican World System - Frances F. Berdan <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-155' class='sequence-12'>Chapter 7. Classic Maya Marketplaces and Exchanges: Examining Market Competition as a Factor for Understanding Commodity Distributions - Lisa J. LeCount <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-175' class='sequence-13'>Section 2: Old World Cases <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-177' class='sequence-14'>Chapter 8. Enduring Nations and Emergent States: Rulership, Subjecthood, and Power in Early Scandinavia - T. L. Thurston <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-207' class='sequence-15'>Chapter 9. The Bakitara (Banyoro) of Uganda and Collective Action Theory - Peter Robertshaw <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-225' class='sequence-16'>Chapter 10. Cognitive Codes and Collective Action at Mari and the Indus - Rita Wright <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-239' class='sequence-17'>Chapter 11. 'We Shape Our Buildings and Afterwards Our Buildings Shape Us': Interpreting Architectural Evolution in a Sinhalese Village - Deborah Winslow <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-257' class='sequence-18'>Section 3: Cross-Cultural Studies <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-259' class='sequence-19'>Chapter 12. Network Strategy and War - Peter N. Peregrine and Carol R. Ember <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-271' class='sequence-20'>Chapter 13. Framing the Rise and Variability of Past Complex Societies - Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-291' class='sequence-21'>Chapter 14. Pathways to Power: Corporate and Network Strategies, Staple and Wealth Finance, and Primary and Secondary States - Tim Earle <div class='ch-level-2' class='start-page-309' class='sequence-22'>Chapter 15. Corporate Power Strategies, Collective Action, and Control of Principals: A Cross-Cultural Perspective - Lane F. Fargher <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-327' class='sequence-23'>References <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-395' class='sequence-24'>List of Contributors <div class='ch-level-1' class='start-page-397' class='sequence-25'>Index.
• Publisher Details: Louisville : University Press of Colorado
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (422 pages)
• Subjects: Social Science -- General; Social Science -- Archaeology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781607325338
• Related ISBNs: 9781607325321
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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