Feast, Famine or Fighting? : Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity

The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists. Existing theories and approaches involving the origins of social complexity include environmental circumscription, population growth, technology transfers, prestige-based and interpersonal-group competition, orga...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Chacon, Richard J. (Editor), Mendoza, Rubén G. (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesStudies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 8
Subjects
Social sciences.
Community ecology, Biotic.
Anthropology.
Archaeology.
Social sciences > Philosophy.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319484020
ISSN1574-0501 ;
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-48402-0
Physical DescriptionXXIX, 490 p. 149 illus., 108 illus. in color. online resource.

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Table of 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.

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