Cultural Evolution

Contemporary Viewpoints
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-1-4613-6871-7
Verlag: Springer US

Buch, Englisch, 269 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 441 g

Drawing on Kent Flannery's forty years of cross-cultural research in the area, the contributors to this collection reflect the current diversity of contemporary approaches to the study of cultural evolutionary processes. Collectively the volume expresses the richness of the issues being investigated by comparative theorists interested in long-term change, as well as the wide variety of data, approaches, and ideas that researchers are employing to examine these questions.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Manzanilla, Linda

Feinman, Gary M.

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Humanbiologie Physische Anthropologie, Paläoanthropologie, Evolutionäre Anthropologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Archäologie: Theorie und Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contributors. Preface. I: Introduction. 1. Cultural Evolutionary Approaches and Archaeology: Past, Present, and Future; G. Feinman. II: Technological Change and Economic Specialization. 2. Guilá Naquitz Revisited: Agricultural Origins in Oaxaca, Mexico; B.D. Smith. 3. The Evolution of the Tipití, A Study in the Process of Invention; R.L. Carneiro. 4. Accelerated Technological Change in Archaeology and Ancient History; R. McC. Adams. 5. High-Intensity Household-Scale Production in Ancient Mesoamerica: A Perspective from Ejutla, Oaxaca; G.M. Feinman, L.M. Nicholas. III: Political Complexity and Its Emergence. 6. Lightning and Jaguars: Iconography, Ideology, and Politics in Formative Cuicatlán, Oaxaca; C.S. Spencer, E.M. Redmond. 7. Games, Players, Rules, and Circumstances: Looking for Understandings of Social Change at Different Levels; R.D. Drennan. 8. Modeling Tributary Economies and Hierarchical Polities: A Prologue; H.T. Wright. 9. The Development of Administration from Collective to Centralized Economies in the Mesopotamian World. The Transformation of an Institution from System-Serving to Self-Serving; M. Frangipane. IV: Conclusion. 10. A Concluding Perspective on the Theoretical Contributions of Kent V. Flannery: Tenets for the Next Century of United States Archaeology; G.M. Feinman. Postscript; L. Manzanilla. Comprehensive Bibliography for Kent V. Flannery.