Chiefdoms

Chiefdoms

Author: Timothy K. Earle

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1993-04

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780521448963

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These eleven case studies of different chiefdoms examine how ruling elites retain and legitimize their power.


How Chiefs Come to Power

How Chiefs Come to Power

Author: Timothy K. Earle

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780804728560

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This book is basically about power-how people came to acquire it and the implications that contrasting paths to power had for the development of societies. Earle argues that chiefdoms, being a regional polity with governance over a population of a few thousand to tens of thousands of people, and with some social stratification, possessed the same fundamental dynamics as those of states, and that the origin of states is to be understood in the emergence and development of chiefdoms. His arguments are developed by three case studies-Denmark during the Neolithic and early Bronze Age (2300-1300) BC, the high Andes of Peru from the early chiefdoms through the Inka conquest (AD 500-1534), and Hawai'i from early settlement to its incorporation in the world economy (AD 800-1824). After summarizing the cultural history of the three societies over a thousand years, he considers the sources of chiefly power-the economy, military power and ideology-and how these sources were linked together.


Chiefdoms

Chiefdoms

Author: Robert L. Carneiro

Publisher: Eliot Werner Publications

Published: 2017-12-31

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 173337695X

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What many anthropologists regard as the major step in political development occurred when, for the first time in history, previously autonomous villages gave up their individual sovereignties and were brought together into a multi-village political unit--the chiefdom. Though long neglected as a major stage in history, recent years have seen the chiefdom come in for increased attention. As its importance has been more fully recognized, it has become the object of serious scholarly analysis and interpretation. In this volume specialists in political evolution draw on data from ethnography, archaeology, and history and apply fresh insights to enhance the study of the chiefdom. The papers present penetrating analyses of many aspects of the chiefdom, from how this form of political organization first arose to the role it played in giving rise to the next major stage in the development of human society--the state.


Lamar Archaeology

Lamar Archaeology

Author: Mark Williams

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 1990-08-30

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0817304665

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Lamar Archaeology provides a comprehensive and detailed review of our knowledge of the late prehistoric Indian societies in the Southern Appalachian area and its peripheries.


Hispaniola

Hispaniola

Author: Samuel M. Wilson

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 1990-10-30

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 0817304622

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Hispaniola examines the early years of the contact period in the Caribbean and in narrative form reconstructs the social and political organization of the Ta&iactue;no.


Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa

Kingdoms and Chiefdoms of Southeastern Africa

Author: Elizabeth A. Eldredge

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1580465145

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History and oral traditions in southeastern Africa -- Oral traditions in the reconstruction of southern African history -- Shipwreck survivor accounts from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- Founding families and chiefdoms east of the Drakensberg -- Maputo Bay peoples and chiefdoms before 1740 -- Maputo Bay, 1740-1820 -- Eastern chiefdoms of southern Africa, 1740-1815 -- Zulu conquests and the consolidation of power, 1815-21 -- Military campaigns, migrations, and political reconfiguration -- Ancestors, descent lines, and chiefdoms west of the Drakensberg before 1820 -- The Caledon River valley and the Basotho of Moshoeshoe, 1821-33 -- The expansion of the European presence at Maputo Bay, 1821-33 -- Southern African kingdoms on the eve of colonization.


Beyond Chiefdoms

Beyond Chiefdoms

Author: Susan Keech McIntosh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-06-10

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 0521630746

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This book reintroduces an African perspective on archaeological theorizing about complex societies.


The Curse of American Agricultural Abundance

The Curse of American Agricultural Abundance

Author: Willard Wesley Cochrane

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13: 9780803215290

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Advisor to President Kennedy, consultant for foreign governments, and spokesman for family farmers everywhere, Willard W. Cochrane has been a leading expert on agriculture and its problems in the United States since the 1940s. In his straightforward style Cochrane analyzes the propensity for American agriculture to produce too much and the inability of our social and economic system to make effective use of that unending abundance. He then offers his vision for American agriculture in the twenty-first century. Cochrane looks at two periods in agricultural history: 195366 and 19972002. Structurally, technologically, and organizationally the two periods are as different as night and day, but in terms of the big economic picture--too much production pressing on a limited commercial demand with resulting low farm prices and incomes--they are mirror images of each other. With this understanding, Cochrane argues that Americans no longer need to farm fragile ecosystems with intensive chemical methods, make huge payments that result in fewer farms and higher farming costs, nor bear the environmental consequences of all-out production. Instead, he outlines a bold new strategy in which we can enjoy our abundance and focus our efforts on quality of life and protecting the environment in our rural areas. Willard W. Cochrane is the author of numerous books, including The Development of American Agriculture: A Historical Analysis, and coauthor of Reforming Farm Policy: Toward a National Agenda. Richard A. Levins is a professor of agricultural economics at the University of Minnesota and the author of Willard Cochrane and the American Family Farm (Nebraska 2003).