STATE and SOCIETY

The emergence and development of social hierarchy and political centralization




Libro editado por John Gledhill, Barbara Bender y Mogens Trolle Larsen (1988 -edición digital 2005).


Indice

Introduction: the comparative analysis of social and political transitions
John Gledhill

Social evolution and world-historical time
The pitfalls of supra-historical definitions
Chiefdom to state: gradual and quantitative transition or nonevent?
State and class
Europe and its ‘others’
Archaeological perspectives on state formation

RANKED SOCIETIES AND THE TRANSITION OF STATEHOOD

1 Small fish in a big sea: geographical dispersion and sociopolitical centralization in the Marshall Islands
Laurence Marshall Carucci
2 Evolution, sequential hierarchy, and areal integration: the case of traditional Samoan society
Thomas Bargatzky
Introduction
Simultaneous hierarchy and sequential hierarchy
The occasional ceremonial hierarchy of Safata
Ramifying descent groups in Samoa
Safata: an early state?
Discussion
3 The Hawaiian transformation of Ancestral Polynesian Society: conceptualizing chiefly states
Matthew Spriggs
Introduction
The Hawaiian cultural sequence
Interpretations of the Hawaiian sequence
A revised Hawaiian model
Conclusions

THE DYNAMICS OF STATE FORMATION: FORMATION PROCESSES, CUMULATIVE AND UNEVEN DEVELOPMENT, DEVOLUTION AND RESISTANCE

4 State formation and uneven development
Christine Ward GaileyThomas C.Patterson
Tribute-based states
The communal mode of production
The Germanic mode of production
The lineage mode of production
Discussion
5 Subsistence, social control of resources and the development of complex society in the Valley of Mexico
Brigitte Boehm de Lameiras
The primitive ancestors (6000?–1500 BC)
The first agricultural villages (1500–600 BC)
The development of cities (600 BC–AD 300) 92
The rise of an imperial state: Teotihuacan (c. AD 200–700)
The Toltec expansion (AD 700–1100)
A new reconcentration of efforts (AD 1100–1500)
Some conclusions
6 Hierarchization in Maya segmentary states
John W.Fox
Economics and ethnohistory
Chontal migration from ethnohistory
Segmentary lineage organization
Proxemics of segmentary lineage organization
Successive triparti te tiers
Genealogy and geography
Control of provinces and fragmentation
7 A cycle of development and decline in the early phases of civilization in Palestine: an analysis of the Intermediate Bronze Period (2200–2000 BC)
Talia Shay
Introduction
Theoretical background: definition of social change
The hypothetical explanations of the transition from Early to
Intermediate Bronze
8 Emerging towns in Benin and Ishan (Nigeria) AD 500–1500
P.J.Darling
9 Control of resources in the medieval period
C.G.Harfield
The need for a broader context
Lordship sites and the control of economic resources
10 Copper production and eastern Mediterranean trade: the rise of complex society on Cyprus
A.Bernard Knapp
Introduction
Archaeological background
Economic aspects: production, transportation, and exchange
Ideology and social organization
Copper, cosmopolitanism, and political power
Conclusions

THE RÔLE OF WRITING AND LITERACY IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL POWER
Introduction: literacy and social complexity
Mogens Trolle Larsen
Interpretations: literacy and complexity
Mesopotamian writing
The logic of writing: Uruk and Peru
Conclusion

12 Literacy, social organization, and the archaeological record: the case of early Egypt
John Baines
Introduction
The context of writing
Early Egyptian writing
The 3rd-4th dynasties: development and its control
Extension and loosening of the system
Discussion
Conclusion
13 Power and authority in Early Historic Scotland: Pictish symbol stones and other documents
Stephen T.Driscoll
Historical synopsis
Pictish state formation: administration and discourse
Pictish symbol stones and symbolic discourse
Monumental symbols
14 Literacy and power: the introduction and use of writing in Early Historic Scotland
Margaret R.Nieke
15 Inventions of writing
Michael Harbsmeier
Technology and magic
Knowledge and power
Recapitulations

EUROPEAN COLONIALISM, THE TRANSFORMATION OF INDIGENOUS STATE FORMS, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN NATIONAL STATES

16 Patrimonialism, involution, and the agrarian question in Java: a Weberian analysis of class relations and servile labour
J.I.(Hans) Bakker
Introduction
Classic Indic states
Weber’s typology
Alternative models
Servile labour
Peripheralization?
World economy and patrimonialism
Japan and Java
Conclusion
17 Legacies of empire: political centralization and class formation in the Hispanic-American world
John Gledhill
The Spanish conquest as a disjunction in New World history
Class, state, and conquered in the Americas
Views from below: an example from central Mexico
Resistance to capitalism and to centralization
18 The centralization of education in Mexico: subordination and autonomy
Humberto González Chávez
The unit of analysis
The municipality and the centralization of education
The scope and implications of the centralization of education
Education and local social change
Conclusions