Pathways to Power: New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality (Fundamental Issues in Archaeology) - Paperback

EAN (ISBN-13): 9781461433033
ISBN (ISBN-10): 1461433037
Hardcover
Paperback
Publishing year: 2012
Publisher: Springer
298 Pages
Weight: 0,455 kg
Language: Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 9781461433033

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1-4614-3303-7, 978-1-4614-3303-3
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Book author: fein, gary douglas, price feinman
Book title: the archaeology inequality, pathways power new perspectives, new pathway, seven perspectives, social emergence

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Author: T. Douglas Price
Title: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology; Pathways to Power - New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality
Publisher: Springer; Springer US
298 Pages
Publishing year: 2012-03-12
New York; NY; US
Printed / Made in
Language: English
60,49 € (DE)

BC; Hardcover, Softcover / Politikwissenschaft/Sonstiges; Gesellschaftliche Gruppen, Gemeinschaften und Identitäten; Verstehen; Europe; Evolution; Prehistory burials and rituals; Prehistory social hierarchy; bronze age; devleopment of hierarc; foraging society; history of feudalism; inequality in hunter gatherer cultures; iron age; organizatin of agricultural cultures; prehistory; social inequality; social stratification and religion; societal structure in the Iron Age; Social Structure; Archaeology; History; Archäologie; Geschichte; Geschichtsschreibung, Historiographie; BB

There are few questions more central to understanding the prehistory of our species than those regarding the institutionalization of social inequality. Social inequality is manifested in unequal access to goods, information, decision-making, and power. This structure is essential to higher orders of social organization and basic to the operation of more complex societies. An understanding of the transformation from relatively egalitarian societies to a hierarchical organization and socioeconomic stratification is fundamental to our knowledge about the human condition.  In a follow-up to their 1995 book Foundations of Social Inequality, the Editors of this volume have compiled a new and comprehensive group of studies concerning these central questions. When and where does hierarchy appear in human society, and how does it operate? With numerous case studies from the Old and New World, spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups, and complex states, Pathways to Power provides key historical insights into current social and cultural questions.