03384nam 2200625 450 991046361140332120210422000458.00-520-95919-110.1525/9780520959194(CKB)2670000000581775(EBL)1747547(SSID)ssj0001381701(PQKBManifestationID)12594211(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001381701(PQKBWorkID)11437367(PQKB)11614489(MiAaPQ)EBC1747547(OCoLC)897467024(MdBmJHUP)muse47157(DE-B1597)519389(DE-B1597)9780520959194(Au-PeEL)EBL1747547(CaPaEBR)ebr10993805(CaONFJC)MIL670705(EXLCZ)99267000000058177520141219h20152015 uy 0engur|nu---|u||utxtccrOrderly anarchy sociopolitical evolution in aboriginal California /Robert L. BettingerOakland, California :University of California Press,2015.©20151 online resource (309 p.)Origins of Human Behavior and Culture ;8Description based upon print version of record.0-520-28333-3 1-322-39423-7 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --List of Figures --Acknowledgments --Chapter 1. Introduction --Chapter 2. California in Broad Evolutionary Perspective --Chapter 3. The Evolution of Intensive Hunting and Gathering in Eastern California --Chapter 4. The Privatization of Food --Chapter 5. Plant Intensification West of the Sierra Crest --Chapter 6. Patrilineal Bands, Sibs, and Tribelets --Chapter 7. Back to the Band: Bilateral Tribelets and Bands --Chapter 8. Money --Chapter 9. The Evolution of Orderly Anarchy --Chapter 10. Conclusion --Glossary --References --IndexOrderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations. Scholars have tended to emphasize the development of social complexity and inequality to explain this diversity. Robert L. Bettinger argues instead that "orderly anarchy," the emergence of small, autonomous groups, provided a crucial strategy in social organization. Drawing on ethnographic and archaeological data and evolutionary, economic, and anthropological theory, he shows that these small groups devised diverse solutions to environmental, technological, and social obstacles to the intensified use of resources. This book revises our understanding of how California became the most densely populated landscape in aboriginal North America.Origins of human behavior and culture ;8.Indians of North AmericaCaliforniaCivilizationElectronic books.Indians of North AmericaCivilization.979.4004/97Bettinger Robert L.594419MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463611403321Orderly anarchy2459576UNINA