I had to buy this for a class, and we certainly used it, but I never used it for reference material for papers--too dense--unfriendly writing style.
Author(s): Norman Yoffee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 293
Tags: Антропология;Историческая антропология;
0521818370......Page 1
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
List of figures......Page 12
List of tables......Page 15
INTRODUCTION......Page 17
1 THE EVOLUTION OF A FACTOID......Page 20
an introduction to social evolutionary mythology......Page 21
types, rules, and factoids......Page 22
neo-evolutionism evolving......Page 24
states and civiilizations: beyond heuristics......Page 31
the pursuit of the wily chiefdom......Page 38
neo-evolutionism and new social evolutionary theory: back to the future......Page 47
the evolution of power and its distribution in the earliest states......Page 49
dimensions of power in social evolutionary theory......Page 50
states as states of mind......Page 54
what neo-evolutionism cannot explain......Page 57
3 THE MEANING OF CITIES IN THE EARLIEST STATES AND CIVIILIZATIONS......Page 58
city-states and chimeras......Page 60
cities and states......Page 61
mesopotamian city-states and mesopotamian civilization......Page 69
cities and city-states in social evolutionary perspective......Page 75
4 WHEN COMPLEXITY WAS SIMPLIFIED......Page 107
simplifying the path to power in early chinese states......Page 110
law and order in ancient mesopotamia......Page 116
The Context Of Mesopotamian Law......Page 118
The context and function of the code of Hammurabi......Page 120
The complexities of legal simplification: decision-making in Mesopotamia......Page 125
5 IDENTITY AND AGENCY IN EARLY STATES: CASE STUDIES......Page 129
imagining sex in an early state......Page 132
conclusion: encounters with women in early states......Page 144
6 THE COLLAPSE OF ANCIENT STATES AND CIVIILIZATIONS......Page 147
theorizing collapse......Page 148
Neo-evolutionism and collapse......Page 150
Collapse as the drastic restructuring of social institutions......Page 154
the collapse of ancient mesopotamian states and civiilization......Page 156
The Old Akkadian state (ca. 2350–2200 BC)......Page 158
The Third Dynasty of Ur (ca. 2100-2000 BC)......Page 160
The Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian states (ca. 2000-1600 BC)......Page 163
the end of the cycle?......Page 167
Collapse as the mutation of social identity and suffocation of cultural memory......Page 169
The collapse of Mesopotamian civilization and its regeneration......Page 175
7 SOCIAL EVOLUTIONARY TRAJECTORIES......Page 177
evolutionary history of the chaco “rituality”......Page 178
non-normative thinking in social evolutionary theory......Page 187
southwest and southeast......Page 189
towards a history of social evolutionary trajectories......Page 193
8 NEW RULES OF THE GAME......Page 196
the game of archaeological neologisms......Page 197
The engineering of archaeological theory: mining and bridging......Page 198
how archaeologists lost their innocence......Page 199
levels of archaeological theory......Page 201
sources of analogy in archaeological theory......Page 204
analogy and the comparative method......Page 208
9 ALTERED STATES: THE EVOLUTION OF HISTORY......Page 212
an essay on the evolution of mesopotamian states and civiilization......Page 214
Initial conditions and emergent properties......Page 216
Interaction and identity......Page 220
The formation of Mesopotamian civilization and Mesopotamian city-states......Page 225
evolutionary histories of the earliest cities, states, and civilizations......Page 244
Acknowledgments......Page 249
References......Page 252
Index......Page 284
