The early State, its alternatives and analogues

Introduction ......Page 4
Contents ......Page 7
Part I: Theory ......Page 10
1. Alternatives of Social Evolution. Dmitri M. Bondarenko, Leonid E. Grinin, and Andrey V. Korotayev ......Page 12
2. Was the Chiefdom a Congelation of Ideas? Robert L. Carneiro ......Page 37
3. Beyond States and Empires: Chiefdoms and Informal Politics. Patrick Chabal, Gary Feinman, and Peter Skalnik ......Page 55
4. Alternative Models of Middle Range Society. ’Individualistic’ Asia vs. ‘Collectivistic’ America? Yuri E. Berezkin ......Page 70
5. Was the State Inevitable? Henri J. M. Claessen ......Page 81
6. The Early State and Its Analogues: A Comparative Analysis. Leonid E. Grinin ......Page 97
Part II: Early States ......Page 146
7. Early Dynastic Egypt: A Socio-Environmental/Anthropological Hypothesis of‘Unification’. Dmitri B. Proussakov ......Page 148
8. The Ruler as Possessor of Power in Sumer. Vladimir V. Emelianov ......Page 190
9. Ritual and Rationality: Religious Roots of the Bureaucratic State in Ancient China. Richard Baum ......Page 205
10. Conquest Warfare, Strategies of Resistance, and the Rise of the Zapotec Early State. Charles S. Spencer and Elsa M. Redmond ......Page 229
11. The Pristine Myth of the Pristine State in America. Richard P. Schaedel and David G. Robinson ......Page 271
12. The Transition to Statehood in Central Europe. Ludomir R. Lozny ......Page 287
13. Formation and Development of States in the Congo Basin. Eleonora S. L’vova ......Page 297
Part III: Sedentary Alternatives and Analogues ......Page 307
14. The Chiefdom: Precursor of the Tribe? (Some Trends of Political Evolution in North-East Yemeni Highlands). Andrey V. Korotayev ......Page 309
15. From Local Communities to Megacommunity: Biniland in the 1st Millennium B.C.- 19th Century A.D. Dmitri M. Bondarenko ......Page 334
16. Greece: The Stateless Polis (11th- 4th Centuries B.C.). Moshe Berent ......Page 373
17. Rome: Socio-political Evolution in the 8th- 2nd Centuries B.C. Dmitri V. Dozhdev ......Page 397
18. Early State and Democracy. Leonid E. Grinin ......Page 428
Part IV. Nomadic Alternatives and Analogues ......Page 473
19. Cultural Capital, Livestock Raiding, and the Military Advantage of Traditional Pastoralists. William Irons ......Page 475
20. Nomads of the Eurasian Steppes in Historical Retrospective. Anatoly M. Khazanov ......Page 485
21. Nomadic Empires in Evolutionary Perspective. Nikolay N. Kradin ......Page 510
22. Mongolian Nomadic Society of the Empire Period. Tatyana D. Skrynnikova ......Page 534