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9780521401906, titled "Chiefdoms: Power Economy and Ideology" | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $83.99 | also contains Chiefdoms: Power Economy and Ideology

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9781119137764 | 5th edition (For Dummies, November 16, 2015), cover price $24.99
9781118692905 | 3 edition (For Dummies, October 28, 2013), cover price $24.99

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What is the role of leadership in society? Why do people surrender their political autonomy to the decision-making authority of leaders and rulers? Why do people follow the commands of their leaders? Who gets to be king/chief/emperor and why? Why are some societies centralized while others are not? The papers in this volume draw on the archaeological record of societies from around the world to address these critical issues in contemporary social science.
By Jonathan Haas (editor)

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9780306464218 | Plenum Pub Corp, October 1, 2001, cover price $269.00 | About this edition: What is the role of leadership in society?

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9781461354840 | Reprint edition (Springer Verlag, November 5, 2012), cover price $229.00

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By Fernanda Pirie (editor)

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9781845451981 | Berghahn Books, January 20, 2008, cover price $75.00

Paperback:

9780857451484 | Berghahn Books, June 1, 2011, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: Politics: a static network of structural and functional models? Is it a "given" set of rules, statuses and procedures? Or a dynamic process, a continuum related to the past as well as to the present and continually influenced by pressures within and outside of a society? Taking the latter view of the nature of political behavior, the editors of Political Anthropology here present an original compilation of papers that thoroughly assess contemporary anthropological research and theory on political phenomena and explore the sources and maintenance of political power...read more

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9780202308944 | Aldine De Gruyter, September 30, 2006, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Politics: a static network of structural and functional models?

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Investigates how ethnicity, nationalism and cultural identity are marked in everyday life at international borders. This anthropological study covers West Africa, the Turkish-Syrian border, India and the proposed Khalistan, the German-French border, the Portuguese-Spanish border, and Ireland.

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9780819194534 | Univ Pr of Amer, September 1, 1994, cover price $69.99

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9780819194541 | Univ Pr of Amer, September 1, 1994, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Investigates how ethnicity, nationalism and cultural identity are marked in everyday life at international borders.

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Product Description: The study of chiefdoms has moved from a preoccupation with their formal characteristics to a concern with their dynamics as political institutions. The contributors are interested in how ruling elites retain power through control over production and exchange, and then legitimize that control through an elaborated ideology...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Timothy Earle (editor)

Hardcover:

9780521401906 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1991, cover price $83.99 | also contains Iphone for Seniors for Dummies

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9780521448963, titled "Chiefdoms: Power, Economy, and Ideology" | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1993), cover price $54.99 | About this edition: The study of chiefdoms has moved from a preoccupation with their formal characteristics to a concern with their dynamics as political institutions.

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Product Description: A study based on archaeological and ethnographic case studies examining the social, economic and political processes behind the development of political systems, located on a continuum between communally organized hunter-gatherer bands and stratified, centralized chiefdoms and states...read more
By Steadman Upham (editor)

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9780521382526 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 1990, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: A study based on archaeological and ethnographic case studies examining the social, economic and political processes behind the development of political systems, located on a continuum between communally organized hunter-gatherer bands and stratified, centralized chiefdoms and states.

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Product Description: This book is part of a series resulting from the World Archaeological Congress held in 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense. It emphasised that archaeology is much more than the mere recording of specific cultural events...read more

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9780044450238 | Unwin Hyman, December 1, 1988, cover price $79.95 | About this edition: This book is part of a series resulting from the World Archaeological Congress held in 1986 which addressed world archaeology in its widest sense.

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Product Description: Pp. viii, 216; 2 text-figures, 1 map. Publisher's original yellow stiff printed wrappers, lg 8vo. In this volume, anthropologists, historians and classical scholars contribute 12 chapters on the dynamics of Early States ranging from Angkor to the Incas, and from Ancient Greece to Vijayanagara...read more

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9789004081017 | Brill Academic Pub, February 1, 1988, cover price $46.50 | About this edition: Pp.

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