Description: Factional Competition and Political Development in the New World by Elizabeth M. Brumfiel andJohn W. FoxFactionalism is an important force of social transformation, and this volume examines how factional competition in the kinship and political structures in ancient New World societies led to the development of chiefdoms, states and empires. The case studies, from a range of New World societies, represent all levels of non-egalitarian societies and a wide variety of ecological settings in the New World. They document the effects of factionalism on the structure of particular polities: for example, how it might have led to the growth of social inequality, or to changing patterns of chiefly authority, or to state formation and expansion, or institutional specialisation. The work is a creative and substantial contribution to our understanding of the political dynamics in early state society, and will interest archaeologists, anthropologists, political scientists and historians.internal code: 0071666Ships in 24 hours or less
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Subject: Politics
Region: World
Publication Date: 1994-01-27
Pages: 246
Item Length: 10in.
Item Height: 0.7in.
Item Width: 7.6in.
Author: John w. Fox
Publication Name: Factional Competition and Political Development in the New WORLD
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Series: New Directions in Archaeology Ser.
Publication Year: 1994
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 25.3 Oz
Number of Pages: 246 Pages
