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: 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.


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.


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.


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.


The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms

The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms

Author: Patrick Vinton Kirch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-07-13

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9780521273169

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A first study from an archaeological perspective of the elaborate systems of Polynesian chiefdoms presents an original account of the processes of cultural change and evolution over three millennia.


Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions

Chiefdoms and Other Archaeological Delusions

Author: Timothy R. Pauketat

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2007-05-30

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0759112509

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In recent decades anthropology, especially ethnography, has supplied the prevailing models of how human beings have constructed, and been constructed by, their social arrangements. In turn, archaeologists have all too often relied on these models to reconstruct the lives of ancient peoples. In lively, engaging, and informed prose, Timothy Pauketat debunks much of this social-evolutionary theorizing about human development, as he ponders the evidence of 'chiefdoms' left behind by the Mississippian culture of the American southern heartland. This book challenges all students of history and prehistory to reexamine the actual evidence that archaeology has made available, and to do so with an open mind.