The creation of inequality : how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and empire /
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| Author / Creator: | Flannery, Kent V. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012. |
| Description: | xiii, 631 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8775798 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Part I. Starring Out Equal
- 1. Genesis and Exodus
- 2. Rousseau s "State of Nature"
- 3. Ancestors and Enemies
- 4. Why Our Ancestors Had Religion and the Arts
- 5. Inequality without Agriculture
- Part II. Balancing Prestige and Equality
- 6. Agriculture and Achieved Renown
- 7. The Ritual Buildings of Achievement-Based Societies
- 8. The Prehistory of the Ritual House
- 9. Prestige and Equality in Four Native American Societies
- Part III. Societies That Made Inequality Hereditary
- 10. The Rise and Fall of Hereditary Inequality in Farming Societies
- 11. Three Sources of Power in Chiefly Societies
- 12. From Ritual House to Temple in the Americas
- 13. Aristocracy without Chiefs
- 14. Temples and Inequality in Early Mesopotamia
- 15. The Chiefly Societies in Our Backyard
- 16. How to Turn Rank into Stratification: Tales of the South Pacific
- Part IV. Inequality in Kingdoms and Empires
- 17. How to Create a Kingdom
- 18. Three of die New Worlds First-Generation Kingdoms
- 19. The Land of die Scorpion King
- 20. Black Ox Hides and Golden Stools
- 21. The Nursery of Civilization
- 22. Graft and Imperialism
- 23. How New Empires Learn from Old
- Part V. Resisting Inequality
- 24. Inequality and Natural Law
- Notes
- Sources of Illustrations
- Index