Origins of the State
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SUMMARY: Chapter 12, in Renfrew & Bahn's textbook (Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice), covers early explanations using migrations and diffusion to explain change, and more recent approaches and explanations such as processual... more
Peace and war are perennial themes in international relations, attention paid to both victors and the vanquished. Related to this, in his great work Leviathan, Hobbes develops a theory of rights which has not garnered the attention that... more
Xiongnu Archaeology: Multidisciplinary Perspectives of the First Steppe Empire in Inner Asia. Ed. by U. Brosseder and B. Miller. Bonn: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn, 2011, p. 77-96 (Bonn Contributions to Asian... more
Historia del Egipto de los orígenes, desde Nagada IIcd y el surgimiento del Estado hasta la II dinastía. / History of Egypt at its origins, from Naqada IIcd and the rise of the State up to the 2nd dynasty.
This is a final draft of my short study of the concept of sovereignty in the Book of Lord Shang and its relation to the book's peculiar view of the origins of the state.
This is a bibliography of works by the late anthropologist and American Museum of Natural History Curator Robert L. Carneiro. Over a career of more than sixty years, Carneiro produced scholarly works on Amazonian Indians, theories on the... more
The origin and early development of social stratification is essentially an archaeological problem. The impressive advance of archaeological research has revealed that, first and foremost, the pre-eminence of stratified or class society... more
The 2007 investigation of the low desert site of el-Amra (26°8'56.99"N 31°58'46.10"E), located in the Qena district of Upper Egypt revealed two settlements and one probable production area through geophysical prospection. Preliminary... more
Since the discovery and publication of tomb U-j, several studies have appeared on different topics of the Late Predynastic. Among them, an important group has focussed on the early writing and the possible significance of several signs.... more
Alternatives of Social Evolution Ed. by N. Kradin, A. Korotayev, & D. Bondarenko. Vladivostok- FEB RAS, 2000
In focusing on the sociopolitical ramifications of sacrifice, the human manipulations of diverse bodies in the accomplishment of human goals, we ignore to our detriment the power of the divine and the ontological frameworks in which... more
In: Hendrickx, S., Friedman, R., Cialowicz, K. & Chlodnicki, M., (eds.), Egypt at its Origins. Studies in Memory of Barbara Adams, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta vol. 138, ISBN: 90-429-1469-6, Leuven, Peeters, 2004, pp. 689-703. (This... more
Die Ehe, der Besitz, der Clan – viele soziale Institutionen wurden im 19. Jahrhundert als Keimzellen des Staates diskutiert. Ein solcher rechtshistorisch geschulter Blick ist dem in Königsberg und Bonn lehrenden Wirtschafts- und... more
Recently I did a short introduction for a Book Club discussion of David Graeber and David Wengrow's 2021 book "The Dawn of Everything". In preparation, I spent a lot of time reading reports and watching videos on the sites they discuss.... more
"This paper argues for a pre-theoretical and pro-theatrical understanding of theory. To begin, it considers the Greek tradition of theōria as practiced around the fifth century BCE in the period just before Plato appropriated the cultural... more
Niniejszy artykuł stanowi krótkie wprowadzenie do inkaskich mitów politycznych dotyczących początków państwowości. Analiza danych historycznych ukazuje, że ich treść mitów zależy od frakcji politycznej, która była odpowiedzialna za ich... more
The state and tribe are the two categories used usually to describe the political organization ruled by Mieszko I, who is said to be the founding father of Poland. However, recently some scholars argue, following some anthropological... more
During the transition from family to state organizations, that is from structures built upon the cooperation of a few relatives to organizations controlling the behaviour of thousands and millions of genetically distant individuals, the... more
The evolution of states — chiefdoms and kingdoms — in Ig-boland, like in other societies in Africa, has been subjected to varying interpretations. For much of Igboland, the British warrant chief system has been ascribed as the source of... 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
Between 1175 and 1250 AD, medieval Icelanders transformed their society from a network of decentralized simple chiefdoms into a unified proto-state. Uniquely, a vast corpus of vernacular writing - much written by the chieftains themselves... more
For centres that are described as residences of members of the Přemyslid dynasty in the written sources, archaeological sources document a strikingly synchronous development in the initial stages of their existence in the late ninth and... more
Peace and war are perennial themes in international relations, attention paid to both victors and the vanquished. Related to this, in his great work Leviathan, Hobbes develops a theory of rights which has not garnered the attention that... more
In this presentation, I will discuss the Sicán-Chimú relationship and dynamics based on data and insights gained from 30 years of fieldwork in the Lambayeque region by the Sicán Archaeological Project under my direction. Because of the... more
The Connie Belin National Center for Gifted Education, University of Iowa, College of Education, 210 Lindquist Center, Iowa City, IA 52242-1529 and *Division of Psychology in Education. College of Education, Anzona State University,... more