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Feast, Famine or Fighting? - Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017) Loot Price: R3,197
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Feast, Famine or Fighting? - Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017): Richard J. Chacon, Ruben G....

Feast, Famine or Fighting? - Multiple Pathways to Social Complexity (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)

Richard J. Chacon, Ruben G. Mendoza

Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 8

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The advent of social complexity has been a longstanding debate among social scientists. Existing theories and approaches involving the origins of social complexity include environmental circumscription, population growth, technology transfers, prestige-based and interpersonal-group competition, organized conflict, perennial wartime leadership, wealth finance, opportunistic leadership, climatological change, transport and trade monopolies, resource circumscription, surplus and redistribution, ideological imperialism, and the consideration of individual agency. However, recent approaches such as the inclusion of bioarchaeological perspectives, prospection methods, systematically-investigated archaeological sites along with emerging technologies are necessarily transforming our understanding of socio-cultural evolutionary processes. In short, many pre-existing ways of explaining the origins and development of social complexity are being reassessed. Ultimately, the contributors to this edited volume challenge the status quo regarding how and why social complexity arose by providing revolutionary new understandings of social inequality and socio-political evolution.

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Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Studies in Human Ecology and Adaptation, 8
Release date: 2017
First published: 2017
Editors: Richard J. Chacon • Ruben G. Mendoza
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 29mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 490
Edition: 1st ed. 2017
ISBN-13: 978-3-319-48401-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Social impact of environmental issues > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Biological anthropology > Early man
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LSN: 3-319-48401-X
Barcode: 9783319484013

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