Origins of the state :  the anthropology of political evolution / 
edited by Ronald Cohen and Elman R. Service. 
 - Philadelphia :  Institute for the Study of Human Issues,  c1978. 
 - 233 p. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction /  Classical and modern theories of the origins of government /  The state, the chicken, and the egg : or, what came first? /  Toward an explanation of the origin of the state /  Irrigation, conflict, and politics : a Mexican case /  The proto-state in Iranian Baluchistan /  State foundations : a controlled comparison /  Secondary state formation : an explanatory model /  Aristotle's concept of political structure and the state /  Political expansion as an expression of the principle of competitive exclusion /  Ronald Cohen --  Elman R. Service --  Morton H. Fried --  Henry T. Wright --  Eva Hunt and Robert C. Hunt --  Philip Carl Salzman --  Ronald Cohen --  Barbara J. Price --  Wolfgang Weissleder --  Robert L. Carneiro. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0915980681 0915980843 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>^^^77019091^ 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Chronological Terms: </label><br/>Geschichte. 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Political anthropology<br/>State, The<br/>State, The--Origin
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN492.6  / .O7 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>320.1/1