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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823193603321

Titolo

Foundations of social inequality / / editors, T. Douglas Price, Gary M. Feinman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Springer US : , : Imprint : Springer, , 1995

ISBN

1-4899-1289-4

Edizione

[First edition 1995.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 290 pages)

Collana

Fundamental Issues in Archaeology, , 1567-8040

Disciplina

930.1

Soggetti

Commerce, Prehistoric

Economics, Prehistoric

Ethnoarchaeology

Prehistoric peoples

Anthropology

Archaeology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

I. Introduction -- 1 • Foundations of Prehistoric Social Inequality -- II. Theoretical Perspectives -- 2 • Pathways to Power: Principles for Creating Socioeconomic Inequalities -- 3 • Social Inequality, Marginalisation, and Economic Process -- 4 • The Cultural Foundations of Inequality in Households -- 5 • Social Inequality at the Origins of Agriculture -- III. Studies in Emerging Social Inequality -- 6 • Chiefly Power and Household Production on the Northwest Coast -- 7 • Equality and Hierarchy: Holistic Approaches to Understanding Social Dynamics in the Pueblo Southwest -- 8 • Social Inequality and Agricultural Resources in the Valle de la Plata, Colombia -- 9 • Prehistoric European Chiefdoms: Rethinking “Germanic” Societies -- IV. Conclusion -- 10 • The Emergence of Inequality: A Focus on Strategies and Processes.

Sommario/riassunto

In this authoritative volume, leading researchers offer diverse theoretical perspectives and a wide-range of information on the beginnings and nature of social inequality in past human societies. Their illuminating work investigates the role of status differentiation in



traditional archaeological debates and major societal transitions. This volume features numerous case studies from the Old and New World spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups and complex states. Diachronic in view and archaeological in focus, this book will be of significant interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, and students.