Orderly anarchy : sociopolitical evolution in aboriginal California / / Robert L. Bettinger
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| Autore: |
Bettinger Robert L.
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| Titolo: |
Orderly anarchy : sociopolitical evolution in aboriginal California / / Robert L. Bettinger
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| Pubblicazione: | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , 2015 |
| ©2015 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (309 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 979.4004/97 |
| Soggetto topico: | Indians of North America - California - Civilization |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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 -- Index |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Orderly 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Orderly anarchy |
| ISBN: | 0-520-95919-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463611403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Origins of human behavior and culture ; ; 8.