The Evolution of Urban Societyis concerned with the presentation
and analysis of regularities in the two best-documented examples of
early, independent urban society: Mesopotamia and central Mexico.
It provides a systematic comparison of institutional forms and
trends of growth that are to be found in both of them. Emphasizing
basic similarities in structure rather than the many acknowledged
formal features by which each culture is rendered distinguishable
from all others, it demonstrates that both societies can usefully
be regarded as variants of a single process.
Generalizing, comparative analyses of the origins of ancient
civilizations in early anthropological studies emphasized the
diversity of their cultures rather than their similarities. As this
volume illustrates, early societies, in actuality, provide a
significant example of broad regularities in human behavior. The
emergence of states--of stratified, politically organized societies
based upon a complex division of labor--is one of those great
transformations that have punctuated human civilization. Adams
shows why the study of societal evolution is so significant, and
why it has remained a durable and attractive anthropological focus
of interest.
Originally published in 1966, "The Evolution of Urban Society
"is based on a series of lectures at the University of Rochester in
honor of the esteemed anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan. It remains
required reading for students of anthropology, ethnography, ancient
civilizations, and world history. As Elizabeth Carter noted in
"Science "at the time: "Adams's "The Evolution of Urban Society set
"the agenda for contemporary research into early urbanism in the
Mesopotamian] region."
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