Alternative pathways to complexity : a collection of essays on architecture, economics, power, and cross-cultural analysis in honor of Richard E. Blanton /

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"Focuses on architecture, economics, and power in the evolution of complex societies. Case studies from Mesoamerica, Asia, Africa, and Europe examine the relationship between political structures and economic configurations of ancient chiefdoms and states through a framework of comparative arch...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Blanton, Richard E. (honouree.), Fargher, Lane (Editor ), Heredia Espinoza, Verenice Y. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Boulder : University Press of Colorado, [2016]
Temas:
Archaeology > Cross-cultural studies.
Architecture and archaeology.
Economic anthropology.
Social archaeology.
Technological complexity.
Complexité technologique.
Archéologie > Études transculturelles.
Architecture et archéologie.
Anthropologie économique.
Archéologie sociale.
Archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Architecture and archaeology
Economic anthropology
Social archaeology
Technological complexity
Cross-cultural studies
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • It was the economy, stupid / Stephen A. Kowalewski
  • Alternative pathways to power in formative Oaxaca / Arthur A. Joyce and Sarah B. Barber
  • Built space as political fields : community vs. lineage strategies in the Tequila Valleys / Christopher S. Beekman
  • Complexity without centralization : corporate power in postclassic Jalisco / Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza
  • Central Precinct Plaza : replication and corporate groups in Mesoamerica / Barbara L. Stark
  • Featherwork as a commodity complex in the late postclassic Mesoamerican world system / Frances F. Berdan
  • Classic Maya marketplaces and exchanges : examining market competition as a factor for understanding commodity distributions / Lisa J. LeCount
  • Enduring nations and emergent states : rulership, subjecthood, and power in early Scandinavia / T.L. Thurston
  • The Bakitara (Banyoro) of Uganda and collective action theory / Peter Robertshaw
  • Cognitive codes and collective action at Mari and the Indus / Rita Wright
  • "We shape our buildings and afterwards our buildings shape us" : interpreting architectural evolution in a Sinhalese Village / Deborah Winslow
  • Network strategy and war / Peter N. Peregrine and Carol R. Ember
  • Framing the rise and variability of past complex societies / Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas
  • Pathways to power : corporate and network strategies; staple and wealth finance; and primary and secondary states / Tim Earle
  • Corporate power strategies, collective action, and control of principals : a cross cultural perspective / Lane F. Fargher.

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