The creation of inequality : how our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and empire / Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus.
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- ISBN: 9780674064690 (hbk.)
- ISBN: 0674064690 (hbk.)
- Physical Description: xiii, 631 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
- Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-614) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | pt. 1. Starting out equal -- Genesis and exodus -- Rousseau's "state of nature" -- Ancestors and enemies -- Why our ancestors had religion and the arts -- Inequality without agriculture -- pt. 2. Balancing prestige and equality -- Agriculture and achieved renown -- The ritual buildings of achievement-based societies -- The prehistory of the ritual house -- Prestige and equality in four Native American societies -- pt. 3. Societies that made inequality hereditary -- The rise and fall of hereditary inequality in farming societies -- Three sources of power in chiefly societies -- From ritual house to temple in the Americas -- Aristocracy without chiefs -- Temples and inequality in early Mesopotamia -- The chiefly societies in our backyard -- How to turn rank into stratification : tales of the South Pacific -- pt. 4. Inequality in kingdoms and empires -- How to create a kingdom -- Three of the New World's first-generation kingdoms -- The land of the scorpion king -- Black ox hides and golden stools -- The nursery of civilization -- Graft and imperialism -- How new empires learn from old -- pt. 5. Resisting inequality -- Inequality and natural law. |
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Subject: | Prehistoric peoples. Anthropology, Prehistoric. Human evolution. Social evolution. Equality. |
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The Creation of Inequality : How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
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The Creation of Inequality : How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
Flannery and Marcus demonstrate that the rise of inequality was not simply the result of population increase, food surplus, or the accumulation of valuables but resulted from conscious manipulation of the unique social logic that lies at the core of every human group. Reversing the social logic can reverse inequality, they argue, without violence.