Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative StudyCambridge University Press, 5 maj 2003 This book offers the first detailed comparative study of the seven best-documented early civilizations: ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, Shang China, the Aztecs and adjacent peoples in the Valley of Mexico, the Classic Maya, the Inka, and the Yoruba. Unlike previous studies, equal attention is paid to similarities and differences in their sociopolitical organization, economic systems, religion, and culture. Many of this study's findings are surprising and provocative. Agricultural systems, technologies, and economic behaviour turn out to have been far more diverse than was expected. These findings and many others challenge not only current understandings of early civilizations but also the theoretical foundations of modern archaeology and anthropology. The key to understanding early civilizations lies not in their historical connections but in what they can tell us about similarities and differences in human behaviour. |
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... Shang and early Western Zhou periods (12oo-950 B.C.), the Valley of Mexico in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries A.D., the Classic Maya (A.D. 250-8oo), the Inka kingdom during the early sixteenth century A.D., and the ...
... Shang and early Western Zhou periods (12oo-950 B.C.), the Valley of Mexico in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries A.D., the Classic Maya (A.D. 250-8oo), the Inka kingdom during the early sixteenth century A.D., and the ...
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... Shang times. While I focus primarily on Shang civilization after the appearance of written texts about 1200 B.C., I will, where it seems appropriate, discuss early Western Zhou customs when little specific is recorded about analogous ...
... Shang times. While I focus primarily on Shang civilization after the appearance of written texts about 1200 B.C., I will, where it seems appropriate, discuss early Western Zhou customs when little specific is recorded about analogous ...
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... Shang Dynasty - may be of Western Asian origin. There is, however, no evidence of influences of Western origin prior to 13oo B.C. or of any direct link between Mesopotamian and early Chinese civilization (K. Chang 1962; Ho 1975). There ...
... Shang Dynasty - may be of Western Asian origin. There is, however, no evidence of influences of Western origin prior to 13oo B.C. or of any direct link between Mesopotamian and early Chinese civilization (K. Chang 1962; Ho 1975). There ...
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... Shang and Western Zhou China. In China, historical archaeology, despite its professed Marxist orientation, has continued to concentrate on studying fine art. Much of the eastern part of the Shang homeland lies buried under the many ...
... Shang and Western Zhou China. In China, historical archaeology, despite its professed Marxist orientation, has continued to concentrate on studying fine art. Much of the eastern part of the Shang homeland lies buried under the many ...
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... Shang Chinese also wrote on strips of bamboo held together by string, but such records have perished. Studies of historical records and songs attributed to the Shang Dynasty that have survived in the Chinese literary canon appear, on ...
... Shang Chinese also wrote on strips of bamboo held together by string, but such records have perished. Studies of historical records and songs attributed to the Shang Dynasty that have survived in the Chinese literary canon appear, on ...
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Kingship | 71 |
City and Territorial | 92 |
Urbanism | 120 |
Appropriation of Wealth | 375 |
Economic Constants and Variables | 395 |
Cognitive and Symbolic Aspects | 407 |
Conceptions of the Supernatural | 409 |
Cosmology and Cosmogony | 444 |
Cult | 472 |
Priests Festivals and the Politics of the Supernatural | 495 |
The Individual and the Universe | 522 |
Class Systems and Social Mobility | 142 |
Family Organization and Gender Roles | 167 |
Administration | 195 |
Law | 221 |
Military Organization | 240 |
Sociopolitical Constants and Variables | 264 |
Economy | 277 |
Food Production | 279 |
Land Ownership | 315 |
Trade and Craft Specialization | 338 |
Elite Art and Architecture | 541 |
Literacy and Specialized Knowledge | 584 |
Values and Personal Aspirations | 626 |
Cultural Constants and Variables | 638 |
Discussion | 651 |
Culture and Reason | 653 |
Conclusion | 684 |
References | 689 |
Index | 733 |
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Understanding Early Civilizations: A Comparative Study Bruce G. Trigger Begränsad förhandsgranskning - 2003 |
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