Chiefdoms: Power, Economy, and Ideology
by Edited by Timothy K. EarleEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-04-30
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
The study of chiefdoms has moved from a preoccupation with their formal characteristics to a concern with their dynamics as political institutions. The contributors are interested in how ruling elites retain power through control over production and exchange, and then legitimize that control through an elaborated ideology. The ten case studies look at particular chiefdoms, originating in specific historical conditions. Despite obvious differences between the chiefdoms, certain common underlying processes are revealed. The collection recognizes how complex and interdependent are the sources of power in society, as well as the forces of instability that constantly threaten to tear it apart.
Author Biography
Timothy Earle is Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles
Table of Contents
| l. The evolution of chiefdoms Timothy Earle | |
| 2. Chiefdoms, states, and systems of social evolution Kristian Kristiansen | |
| 3. The pattern of change in British prehistory Richard Bradley | |
| 4. Property rights and the evolution of chiefdoms Timothy Earle | |
| 5. Lords of the waste: predation, pastoral production, and the process of stratification among the Eastern Tuaregs Candelario Saenz | |
| 6. Chiefship and competitive involution: the Marquesas Islands of eastern Polynesia Patrick Kirch | |
| 7. Trajectories towards social complexity in the later prehistory of the Mediterranean Antonio Gilman | |
| 8. Chiefdoms to city-states: the Greek experience Yale Ferguson | |
| 9. Contrasting patterns of Mississippian development Vincas Steponaitis | |
| l0. Demography, surplus, and inequality: early political formations in highland Mesoamerica Gary Feinman | |
| 11. Pre-Hispanic chiefdom trajectories in Mesoamerica, Central America, and northern South America Robert Drennan. |
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