The Archaeology of Tribal Societies
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The Archaeology of Tribal Societies

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The Archaeology of Tribal Societies

About this book

Anthropological archaeologists have long attempted to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. In our search to understand how chiefdoms and states evolve, and how those societies differ from egalitarian 'bands', we have neglected to develop models that will aid the understanding of the wide range of variability that exists between them. This volume attempts to fill this gap by exploring social organization in tribal - or 'autonomous village' - societies from several different ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological contexts - from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period in the Near East to the contemporary Jivaro of Amazonia.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2002
Print ISBN
9781879621343, 9781879621350
eBook ISBN
9781789201710
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. The Archaeology of Tribal Societies
  2. Copyright
  3. Table of Contents
  4. List of Contributors
  5. Preface and Acknowledgements
  6. Chapter 1. Introduction
  7. Chapter 2. From Social Type to Social Process
  8. Chapter 3. The Tribal Village and Its Culture
  9. Chapter 4. The Long and the Short of a War Leader’s Arena
  10. Chapter 5. Inequality and Egalitarian Rebellion, a Tribal Dialectic in Tonga History
  11. Chapter 6. The Dynamics of Ethnicity in Tribal Society
  12. Chapter 7. Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System
  13. Chapter 8. Mobility and the Organization of Prehispanic Southwest Communities
  14. Chapter 9. Building Consensus
  15. Chapter 10. Fractal Archaeology
  16. Chapter 11. Material Indicators of Territory, Identity, and Interaction in a Prehistoric Tribal System
  17. Chapter 12. Hopewell Tribes
  18. Chapter 13. The Evolution of Tribal Social Organization in theSoutheastern United States
  19. Chapter 14. Mesoamerica’s Tribal Foundations
  20. Chapter 15. Early Neolithic Tribes in the Levant
  21. Chapter 16. A Neolithic Tribal Society in Northern Poland
  22. Chapter 17. Some Aspects of the Social Organization of the LBK ofBelgium
  23. Chapter 18. Integration, Interaction, and Tribal ‘Cycling'