The creation of inequality : how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and empire / Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus.

Author/creator Flannery, Kent V.
Other author Marcus, Joyce.
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge : Harvard University Press, ©2012.
Descriptionxiii, 631 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Prehistoric peoples.
Anthropology, Prehistoric.
Human evolution.
Social evolution.
Equality.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 567-614) and index.
LCCN 2011039902
ISBN9780674064690 (hbk.)
ISBN0674064690 (hbk.)

Availability

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Joyner General Stacks GN740 .F54 2012 ✔ Available Place Hold