Evolution of Social Structure
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The book is written by anthropologists, historians, and archaeologists specializing in nomadic studies. All the chapters presented here discuss various aspects of one significant problem: how could small nomadic peoples at the outskirts... more
"CONTENTS Carole L. Crumley. CONTEXTUAL CONSTRAINTS ON STATE STRUCTURE Olga Yu.Artemova. ON SOME FORMS OFHIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS David Christian. HIERARCHY AND HETERARCHYIN WORLD HISTORY Herbert Barry. SOCIAL BEHAVIORS ASSOCIATEDWITH... more
Until quite recently, cultural evolution has commonly been regarded as the permanent teleological move to a greater level of hierarchy, crowned by state formation. However, recent research, particularly those based upon the principle of... more
This book treats the long-term history and social structure of ancient Greece from the Neolithic period to the second century CE using complexity theory as an explanatory framework. It is published as part of a Cambridge University Press... more
Автор исходит из постулата, что принцип организации общества — преимущественно родственный или территориальный — как критерий различения государственных и негосударственных социумов весьма значим, но изучив современное состояние проблемы,... more
В монографии на максимально широкой и многообразной источниковой базе, с привлечением большого массива отечественной и зарубежной (в том числе африканской) научной литературы реконструирован ход политической истории Бенина и прослежен... more
The principle of communality is denoted as the ability of the originally and essentially communal worldview, consciousness, behavioral pattern, socio-political norms and relations to spread on all the levels of societal complexity... more
Until recently, cultural evolution has been regarded as the teleological move to a greater level of hierarchy. Research based upon the principle of heterarchy – “... the relation of elements to one another when they are unranked or when... more
With transition to the state kinship ceases the role of the central organizing principle of society. However, the very social nature of kinship provides the opportunities for manipulating it as ideology in societies of all types. It was... more
Within the framework of the overwhelming majority of modern theories, the state is considered as a specialized and centralized institution for governing a society, to what its right to exercise coercive authority – legitimized violence is... more
The article provides an anthropological analysis of the socio-political system of the Benin Kingdom from coming to power of the Oba dynasty presumably in the 13th century till the British conquest in 1897. The course of this system... more
The paper provides an anthropological analysis of the socio-political system of the Kingdom of Benin during the longest and most important period of her history: from coming to power of the ruling up to now Second (Oba) dynasty presumably... more
"Until recently, cultural evolution has commonly been regarded as a permanent teleological move to a greater level of hierarchy, crowned with state formation. However, recent research based upon the principle of heterarchy – ‘... the... more
The state is usually considered to be a centralized and specialized coercive institution for governing a society. Contrariwise, our approach stems from the presumption that the state should be studied as a type of society for which this... more
Until quite recently, social evolution has been regarded as the uncontested teleological move to a greater level of complexity understood as an increase in socio-political hierarchy. However, in reality certain alternatives of... more
Extensive review of: Ludomir R. Lozny, Prestate Societies of the North Central European Plains, 600 – 900 CE. New York: Springer 2013, 96 pp. ISBN 978-1-4614-6814-1 (Springer Briefs in Anthropology: Human Ecology). A brief English version... more
The article treats the typology of the early state (“inchoate” – “typical” – “transitional”) from the viewpoint of the state beginnings. The author argues that in general typologies the state should be approached as a form of society, not... more
Of all the West African societies, the Kingdom of Benin is the one most mentioned in contemporary European literature. Since the end of the 15th century, a great deal of material about Benin has been supplied by sailors, traders, etc.,... more
Multilevel societies (MLSs), stable nuclear social units within a larger collective encompassing multiple nested social levels, occur in several mammalian line-ages. Their architectural complexity and size impose specific demands on their... more
Intento de análisis resumida sobre el trasfondo socioeconómico de la población hispánica del siglo XVI de la cual la Corona logró reclutar los ejércitos que contribuyeron tan eficazmente a que la monarquía hispánica logró una posición... more
We present new detailed analyses of samples of pulverized Tejon Lookout granite collected from sections adjacent to the San Andreas and Garlock faults in southern California. The Tejon Lookout granite is pulverized in all exposures within... more
Kroopkin P.L.: On a sacral basis of a sociality 2: Ideal types of elementary social structures. The article elaborates a model of human sacred sphere and its impact on a human sociality. In particular it discusses ideal types of... more
Second edition (republication without changes, except the added "Introduction to the Second Edition") of the volume first published in 2000.
Following theoretical calculations that suggest shallow generation of rock damage during an earthquake rupture, we measure the degree of fracture damage in young sedimentary rocks from the Juniper Hills Formation (JHF) that were displaced... more