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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... 221 12 Military Organization 240 13 Sociopolitical Constants and Variables 264 Economy 14 Food Production 279 15 Land Ownership 315 16 Trade and Craft Specialization 338 17 Appropriation of Wealth 375 18 Economic Constants and Variables.
... 221 12 Military Organization 240 13 Sociopolitical Constants and Variables 264 Economy 14 Food Production 279 15 Land Ownership 315 16 Trade and Craft Specialization 338 17 Appropriation of Wealth 375 18 Economic Constants and Variables.
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... information about technology, subsistence, circulation of goods, settlement patterns, and the distribution of wealth, and data of this sort are becoming increasingly abundant and comparable for early. Comparative Studies.
... information about technology, subsistence, circulation of goods, settlement patterns, and the distribution of wealth, and data of this sort are becoming increasingly abundant and comparable for early. Comparative Studies.
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... wealth, and social prestige. In these societies a tiny ruling group that used coercive powers to augment its authority was sustained by agricultural surpluses and labour systematically appropriated from a much larger number of ...
... wealth, and social prestige. In these societies a tiny ruling group that used coercive powers to augment its authority was sustained by agricultural surpluses and labour systematically appropriated from a much larger number of ...
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... wealth. The close association between wealth and class in industrial societies reflects the high degree of vertical mobility that results from the economic expansion and rapid social change that are inherent in capitalist societies ...
... wealth. The close association between wealth and class in industrial societies reflects the high degree of vertical mobility that results from the economic expansion and rapid social change that are inherent in capitalist societies ...
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... wealth tended to be derived from political power far more frequently than political power was derived from wealth. There is also evidence that in early civilizations major social divisions were perceived very differently from the way we ...
... wealth tended to be derived from political power far more frequently than political power was derived from wealth. There is also evidence that in early civilizations major social divisions were perceived very differently from the way we ...
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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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