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State and society : the emergence and development of social hierarchy and political centralization / edited by John Gledhill, Barbara Bender, and Mogens Trolle Larsen.

Contributor(s): Gledhill, John | Bender, Barbara | Larsen, Mogens Trolle | World Archaeological Congress (1986 : Southampton, England)Material type: TextTextSeries: One world archaeology ; 4.Publication details: London ; Boston : Unwin Hyman, 1988. Description: xvii, 347 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: 0044450230 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Political anthropology -- Congresses | Social structure -- Congresses | Social archaeology -- CongressesGenre/Form: Conference papers and proceedingsAdditional physical formats: Online version:: State and society.; Online version:: State and society.DDC classification: 306/.2 LOC classification: GN492 | .S73 1988
Contents:
Introduction : the comparative analysis of social and political transitions / John Gledhill -- Small fish in a big sea : geographical dispersion and sociopolitical centralization in the Marshall Islands / Laurence Marshall Carucci -- Evolution, sequential hierarchy, and areal integration : the case of traditional Samoan society / Thomas Bargatzky -- The Hawaiian transformation of ancestral Polynesian society : conceptualizing chiefly states / Matthew Spriggs -- State formation and uneven development / Christine Ward Gailey and Thomas C. Patterson -- Subsistence, social control of resources and the development of complex society in the Valley of Mexico / Brigitte Boehm de Lameiras -- Hierarchization in Maya segmentary states / John W. Fox -- A cycle of development and decline in the early phases of civilization in Palestine : and analysis of the intermediate bronze period (2200-2000 BC) / Talia Shay -- Emerging towns in Benin and Ishan (Nigeria) AD 500-1500 / P.J. Darling -- Control of resources in the medieval period / C.G. Harfield -- Copper production and eastern Mediterranean trade : the rise of complex society on Cyprus / A. Bernard Knapp -- Introduction : literacy and social complexity / Mogens Trolle Larsen -- Literacy, social organization, and the archeological record : the case of early Egypt / John Baines -- Power and authority in early historic Scotland : Pictish symbol stones and other documents / Stephen T. Driscoll -- Literacy and power : the introduction and use of writing in early historic Scotland / Margaret R. Nieke -- Inventions of writing / Michael Harbsmeier -- Patrimonialism, involution, and the agrarian question in Java : a Weberian analysis of class relations and servile labour / J.I. (Hans) Bakker -- Legacies of empire : political centralization and class formation in the Hispanic-American world / John Gledhill -- The centralization of education in Mexico : subordination and autonomy / Humberto González Chávez.
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Papers from the World Archaeological Congress held in Southampton, England, in September 1986.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : the comparative analysis of social and political transitions / John Gledhill -- Small fish in a big sea : geographical dispersion and sociopolitical centralization in the Marshall Islands / Laurence Marshall Carucci -- Evolution, sequential hierarchy, and areal integration : the case of traditional Samoan society / Thomas Bargatzky -- The Hawaiian transformation of ancestral Polynesian society : conceptualizing chiefly states / Matthew Spriggs -- State formation and uneven development / Christine Ward Gailey and Thomas C. Patterson -- Subsistence, social control of resources and the development of complex society in the Valley of Mexico / Brigitte Boehm de Lameiras -- Hierarchization in Maya segmentary states / John W. Fox -- A cycle of development and decline in the early phases of civilization in Palestine : and analysis of the intermediate bronze period (2200-2000 BC) / Talia Shay -- Emerging towns in Benin and Ishan (Nigeria) AD 500-1500 / P.J. Darling -- Control of resources in the medieval period / C.G. Harfield -- Copper production and eastern Mediterranean trade : the rise of complex society on Cyprus / A. Bernard Knapp -- Introduction : literacy and social complexity / Mogens Trolle Larsen -- Literacy, social organization, and the archeological record : the case of early Egypt / John Baines -- Power and authority in early historic Scotland : Pictish symbol stones and other documents / Stephen T. Driscoll -- Literacy and power : the introduction and use of writing in early historic Scotland / Margaret R. Nieke -- Inventions of writing / Michael Harbsmeier -- Patrimonialism, involution, and the agrarian question in Java : a Weberian analysis of class relations and servile labour / J.I. (Hans) Bakker -- Legacies of empire : political centralization and class formation in the Hispanic-American world / John Gledhill -- The centralization of education in Mexico : subordination and autonomy / Humberto González Chávez.