Foundations of social inequality
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Foundations of social inequality
(Fundamental issues in archaeology)
Plenum Press, c1995
Available at 9 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this authoritative volume, leading researchers offer diverse theoretical perspectives and a wide-range of information on the beginnings and nature of social inequality in past human societies. Their illuminating work investigates the role of status differentiation in traditional archaeological debates and major societal transitions. This volume features numerous case studies from the Old and New World spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups and complex states. Diachronic in view and archaeological in focus, this book will be of significant interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, and students.
Table of Contents
I. Introduction.- 1 * Foundations of Prehistoric Social Inequality.- II. Theoretical Perspectives.- 2 * Pathways to Power: Principles for Creating Socioeconomic Inequalities.- 3 * Social Inequality, Marginalisation, and Economic Process.- 4 * The Cultural Foundations of Inequality in Households.- 5 * Social Inequality at the Origins of Agriculture.- III. Studies in Emerging Social Inequality.- 6 * Chiefly Power and Household Production on the Northwest Coast.- 7 * Equality and Hierarchy: Holistic Approaches to Understanding Social Dynamics in the Pueblo Southwest.- 8 * Social Inequality and Agricultural Resources in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia.- 9 * Prehistoric European Chiefdoms: Rethinking "Germanic" Societies.- IV. Conclusion.- 10 * The Emergence of Inequality: A Focus on Strategies and Processes.
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