Feast, Famine or Fighting?: Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity (Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation)

Book Overview

Chapter 1: .- Introduction.- Chapter 2: Violence, Warriors, and Rock Art in Bronze Age Scandinavia.- Chapter 3: Societal Dynamics of Prestate Societies of the North Central European Plains, 600-900 CE.- Chapter 4: Trade and State Formation in Ancient East African Coast and Southern Zambezia.- Chapter 5: Feasting, Social Complexity and the Emergence of the Early Neolithic of Upper Mesopotamia: A View from G?bekli Tepe.- Chapter 6: Highly Stratified Societies without Permanent Leadership: Yi in Liangshan of Southwestern China.- Chapter 7: Coercive Power and State Formation in Northern Vietnam.- Chapter 8: The Emergence of Sociopolitical Complexity: Evidence from Contact-era New Guinea.- Chapter 9: Tibenuk and Chuji: Status Attainment and Collective Action in Egalitarian Settings.- Chapter 10: Early Pueblo Great House Communities and Their Leaders: The Transformation of Community Leadership in the Mesa Verde and Chaco Regions, A.D. 625-1025.- Chapter 11: The Development of Complex Societies in Eastern North America: The Roles of Feasting, Famine, and Fighting.- Chapter 12: The Feast before Famine and Fighting: The Origins and Consequences of Social Complexity in the Mirador Basin, Guatemala.- Chapter 13: Tollan Teotihuacan: Multiethnic Mosaics, Corporate Interaction, and Social Complexity in Mesoamerica.- Chapter 14: Pathways to Social Complexity in the Norte Chico Region of Peru.- Chapter 15: How Chiefdom and Early State Social Structures Resolve Collective Action Problems.- Chapter 16: Commentary.- Chapter 17: Multiple Pathways to Large-Scale Human Cooperative Networks: A Reframing.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319839330
• ISBN13: 9783319839332
• Release Date: July 2018
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 490 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"