State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization

State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization
ISBN-10
0415122554
ISBN-13
9780415122559
Series
State and Society
Category
Political anthropology
Pages
347
Language
English
Published
1995
Publisher
Psychology Press
Authors
Barbara Bender, John Gledhill, Mogens Trolle Larsen

Description

The traditional Eurocentric view of state formation and the rise of civilisations is vigorously challenged in this broad-ranging and innovative volume. By bringing archaeological research into contact with the work of ethno-historians and anthropologists, and by constantly challenging trends in interpretation, State and Society offers analyses of political centralization and resistance to it in a diverse range of historical and geographical contexts.

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