Factional competition and political development in the New World
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Factional competition and political development in the New World
(New directions in archaeology)
Cambridge University Press, 2003
- : pbk.
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  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
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Factionalism is an important force of social transformation, and this volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires. The case studies, from a range of New World societies, represent all levels of non-egalitarian societies and a wide variety of ecological settings in the New World. They document the effects of factionalism on the structure of particular polities: for example, how it might have led to the growth of social inequality, or to changing patterns of chiefly authority, or to state formation and expansion, or institutional specialisation. The work is a creative and substantial contribution to our understanding of the political dynamics in early state society, and will interest archaeologists, anthropologists, political scientists and historians.
Table of Contents
- Part I. Introduction: 1. Factional competition and political development in the New World: an introduction Elizabeth M. Brumfiel
- Part II. Chiefdoms: 2. The power of prestige: competitive generosity and the emergence of rank societies in lowland Mesoamerica John E. Clark and Michael Blake
- 3. Factional ascendance, dimensions of leadership, and the development of centralized authority Charles S. Spencer
- 4. External warfare and the internal politics of northern South American tribes and chiefdoms Elsa M. Redmond
- 5. Chiefdom rivalries, control, and external contacts in lower Central America Mary W. Helms
- 6. Factional competition and the political evolution of Mississippian chiefdoms in the southeastern United States David G. Anderson
- Part III. States: 7. Ethnicity and political control in a complex society: the Tarascan state of prehispanic Mexico Helen Perlstein Pollard
- 8. Ethnic groups and factions in Aztec Mexico Elizabeth M. Brumfiel
- 9. Factional divisions within the Aztec (Colhua) royal family Rudolf Van Zantwijk
- 10. Alliance and intervention in Aztec imperial expansion Frederic Hicks
- 11. Political factions in the transition from Classic to Postclassic in the Mixteca Alta Bruce E. Byland, and John M. D. Pohl
- 12. Internal subdivisions of communities in the prehispanic valley of Oaxaca Stephen A. Kowalewski
- 13. Cycles of conflict: political factionalism in the Maya lowlands Mary E. D. Pohl and John M. D. Pohl
- 14. Political cosmology among the Quiche Maya John W. Fox
- 15. Factionalism and political development in the central Andes Terence N. D'Altroy
- Part IV. Discussion
- 16. Factional competition and historical materialism Glenn Perusek
- 17 Conclusions: moietal opposition, segmentation and factionalism in New World political areas John W. Fox.
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