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The creation of inequality : how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and empire
- Title
- The creation of inequality : how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and empire / Kent Flannery, Joyce Marcus.
- Author
- Flannery, Kent V.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Marcus, Joyce.
- Description
- xiii, 631 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-614) and index.
- Contents
- pt. 1. Starting out equal -- Genesis and exodus -- Rousseau's "state of nature" -- Ancestors and enemies -- Why our ancestors had religion and the arts -- Inequality without agriculture -- pt. 2. Balancing prestige and equality -- Agriculture and achieved renown -- The ritual buildings of achievement-based societies -- The prehistory of the ritual house -- Prestige and equality in four Native American societies -- pt. 3. Societies that made inequality hereditary -- The rise and fall of hereditary inequality in farming societies -- Three sources of power in chiefly societies -- From ritual house to temple in the Americas -- Aristocracy without chiefs -- Temples and inequality in early Mesopotamia -- The chiefly societies in our backyard -- How to turn rank into stratification : tales of the South Pacific -- pt. 4. Inequality in kingdoms and empires -- How to create a kingdom -- Three of the New World's first-generation kingdoms -- The land of the scorpion king -- Black ox hides and golden stools -- The nursery of civilization -- Graft and imperialism -- How new empires learn from old -- pt. 5. Resisting inequality -- Inequality and natural law.
- Call Number
- JFE 12-3965
- ISBN
- 9780674064690
- 0674064690
- LCCN
- 2011039902
- OCLC
- 758384090
- Author
- Flannery, Kent V.
- Title
- The creation of inequality : how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and empire / Kent Flannery, Joyce Marcus.
- Imprint
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-614) and index.
- Added Author
- Marcus, Joyce.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-3965