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Chiefdoms: Yesterday and Today

NY : Eliot Werner Publications Incorporated, 2017.
Carneiro R., Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., Claessen H. ., Kradin N., Gibson D. B., Timothy K. E., Skalnik P., Chabal P., Feinman G.
Academic editor: R. Carneiro, Grinin L. E., Korotayev A.

What many anthropologists regard as the major step in political development occurred when, for the first time in history, previously autonomous villages gave up their individual sovereignties and were brought together into a multi-village political unit--the chiefdom. Though long neglected as a major stage in history, recent years have seen the chiefdom come in for increased attention. As its importance has been more fully recognized, it has become the object of serious scholarly analysis and interpretation. In this volume specialists in political evolution draw on data from ethnography, archaeology, and history and apply fresh insights to enhance the study of the chiefdom. The papers present penetrating analyses of many aspects of the chiefdom, from how this form of political organization first arose to the role it played in giving rise to the next major stage in the development of human society - the state.

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Chiefdoms and their analogues: alternatives of social evolution at the societal level of medium complexity
Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., , in: Chiefdoms: Yesterday and Today.: NY: Eliot Werner Publications Incorporated, 2017. Ch. 3 P. 63–108.
The articles in this book pose important questions about the place of chiefdoms on political antropology. First, we must ask if the very notion of the chiefdom has become outdated. Can the chiefdom be regarded as an evolutionary stage? Do archaeological data adequately correspond  to it? Does it make sense to offer definitions to the ...
Added: June 16, 2017
Chiefdoms from the beginning until now
Grinin L. E., Korotayev A., , in: Chiefdoms: Yesterday and Today.: NY: Eliot Werner Publications Incorporated, 2017. Ch. 1 P. 3–14.
What many anthropologists regard as the major step in political development occurred when, for the first time in history, previously autonomous villages gave up their individual sovereignties and were brought together into a multi-village political unit--the chiefdom. Though long neglected as a major stage in history, recent years have seen the chiefdom come in for ...
Added: June 16, 2017
Complex Chiefdoms: Precursor of the State or Its Analogue?
Grinin L. E., , in: Chiefdoms: Yesterday and Today.: NY: Eliot Werner Publications Incorporated, 2017. P. 195–232.
It is often noted in the academic literature that chiefdoms frequently prove to be troublesome for scholars because of the disagreement as to whether to categorize this or that polity as a complex chiefdom or as an early state. This is no wonder, because complex chiefdoms, early states, as well as different other types of ...
Added: October 23, 2017
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