Pathways to Power New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality

There are few questions more central to understanding the prehistory of our species than those regarding the institutionalization of social inequality. Social inequality is manifested in unequal access to goods, information, decision-making, and power. This structure is essential to higher orders of...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Society for American Archaeology. Meeting (-)
Otros Autores: Price, T. Douglas. editor (editor), Feinman, Gary M. editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York 2010.
Edición:1st ed. 2010.
Colección:Fundamental Issues in Archaeology,
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Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009456010906719
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  • Degrees and Kinds of Inequality
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  • Who Benefits from Complexity? A View from Futuna
  • Traces of Inequality at the Origins of Agriculture in the Ancient Near East
  • Decentralized Complexity: The Case of Bronze Age Northern Europe
  • Bitter Arrows and Generous Gifts: WhatWas a ‘King’ in the European Iron Age?
  • A Dual-Processual Perspective on the Power and Inequality in the Contemporary United States: Framing Political Economy for the Present and the Past.