Alternative Pathways to Complexity: A Collection of Essays on Architecture, Economics, Power, and Cross-Cultural AnalysisLane F. Fargher, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza Alternative Pathways to Complexity focuses on the themes of architecture, economics, and power in the evolution of complex societies. Case studies from Mesoamerica, Asia, Africa, and Europe examine the relationship between political structures and economic configurations of ancient chiefdoms and states through a framework of comparative archaeology. A group of highly distinguished scholars takes up important issues, theories, and methods stemming from the nascent body of research on comparative archaeology to showcase and apply important theories of households, power, and how the development of complex societies can be extended and refined. Drawing on the archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic records, the chapters in this volume contain critical investigations on the role of collective action, economics, and corporate cognitive codes in structuring complex societies. Alternative Pathways to Complexity is an important addition to theoretical development and empirical research on Mesoamerica, the Old World, and cross-cultural studies. The theoretical implications addressed in the chapters will have broad appeal for scholars grappling with alternative pathways to complexity in other regions as well as those addressing diverse cross-cultural research. Contributors: Sarah B. Barber, Cynthia L. Bedell, Christopher S. Beekman, Frances F. Berdan, Tim Earle, Carol R. Ember, Gary M. Feinman, Arthur A. Joyce, Stephen A. Kowalewski, Lisa J. LeCount, Linda M. Nicholas, Peter N. Peregrine, Peter Robertshaw, Barbara L. Stark, T. L. Thurston, Deborah Winslow, Rita Wright |
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Community versus | |
Corporate Power | |
Central Precinct Plaza Replication and Corporate Groups | |
Featherwork as a Commodity Complex in the Late | |
Examining | |
Rulership | |
Cognitive Codes and Collective Action at Mari and | |
We Shape Our Buildings and Afterwards | |
Network Strategy and | |
Framing the Rise and Variability of Past Complex | |
Corporate and Network Strategies | |
Corporate Power Strategies Collective Action | |
References | |
The Bakitara Banyoro of Uganda and Collective Action | |
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