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Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1989-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0521273161
A first study from an archaeological perspective of the elaborate systems of Polynesian chiefdoms presents an original account of the processes of cultural change and evolution over three millennia.
Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Computer Science Press, Incorporated
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UIUC:30112006947078
Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520234611
Providing a synthesis of archaeological and historical anthropological knowledge of the indigenous cultures of the Pacific islands, this text focuses on human ecology and island adaptations.
Author : Timothy K. Earle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1993-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521448964
These eleven case studies of different chiefdoms examine how ruling elites retain and legitimize their power.
Author : Robert Wright
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-06-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780316053273
In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure to cause controversy. He explains why spirituality has a role today, and why science, contrary to conventional wisdom, affirms the validity of the religious quest. And this previously unrecognized evolutionary logic points not toward continued religious extremism, but future harmony. Nearly a decade in the making, The Evolution of God is a breathtaking re-examination of the past, and a visionary look forward.
Author : Bruce G. Trigger,Wilcomb E. Washburn,Richard E. W. Adams,Frank Salomon,Stuart B. Schwartz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1084 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0521630754
Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.
Author : John H. Bodley
Publisher : Rowman Altamira
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780759118676
This introductory text introduces basic concepts in cultural anthropology by comparing cultures of increasing scale and focusing on specific universal issues throughout human history. It uniquely challenges students to consider the big questions about the nature of cultural systems.
Author : Dmitri M. Bondarenko,Stephen A. Kowalewski,David B. Small
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030514372
This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution using case studies from the Old and the New World, from prehistory to the present. This approach is based on examining social evolution through the evolution of social institutions. Evolution is defined as the process of structural change. Within this framework the society, or culture, is seen as a system composed of a vast number of social institutions that are constantly interacting and changing. As a result, the structure of society as a whole is also evolving and changing. The authors posit that the combination of evolving social institutions explains the non-linear character of social evolution and that every society develops along its own pathway and pace. Within this framework, society should be seen as the result of the compound effect of the interactions of social institutions specific to it. Further, the transformation of social institutions and relations between them is taking place not only within individual societies but also globally, as institutions may be trans-societal, and even institutions that operate in one society can arise as a reaction to trans-societal trends and demands. The book argues that it may be more productive to look at institutions even within a given society as being parts of trans-societal systems of institutions since, despite their interconnectedness, societies still have boundaries, which their members usually know and respect. Accordingly, the book is a must-read for researchers and scholars in various disciplines who are interested in a better understanding of the origins, history, successes and failures of social institutions.
Author : Michael W. Graves,Roger Curtis Green
Publisher : Australian Geographic
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Polynesia
ISBN : UOM:39015032073226
Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1986-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521301890
Concentrating their attention on the Pacific Islands, the contributors to this book show how the tightly focused social and economic systems of islands offer archaeologists a series of unique opportunities for tracking and explaining prehistoric change. From the 1950s onwards, excavations in such islands as Fiji, Palau and Hawaii revolutionised Oceanic archaeology and, as the major problems of cultural origins and island sequences were resolves, archaeologists came increasingly to study social change and to integrate newly acquired data on material culture with older ethnographic and ethnohistorical materials. The fascinating results of this work, centring on the evolution of complex Oceanic chiefdoms into something very much like classic 'archaic states', are authoritatively surveyed here.
Author : Robin Beck,Robin A. Beck
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107022133
Offers a new framework for understanding the transformation of the Native American South during the first centuries of the colonial era.
Author : Norman Yoffee,Andrew Sherratt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1993-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521449588
This volume assesses the real achievements of archaeology in increasing an understanding of the past. Without rejecting the insights either of traditional or more recent approaches, it considers the issues raised in current claims and controversies about what is appropriate theory for archaeology. The first section looks at the process of theory building and at the sources of the ideas employed. The following studies examine questions such as the interplay between expectation and evidence in ideas of human origins, social role and material practice in the formation of the archaeological record, and how the rise of states should be conceptualised; further papers cover issues of ethnoarchaeology, visual symbols, and conflicting claims to ownership of the past. The conclusion is that archaeologists need to be equally wary of naive positivism in the guise of scientific procedure, and of speculation about the unrecorded intentions of prehistoric actors.
Author : Patrick Vinton Kirch
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520303393
In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of “archaic states” whose distinctive feature was divine kingship. Kirch takes as his focus the Hawaiian archipelago, commonly regarded as the archetype of a complex chiefdom. Integrating anthropology, linguistics, archaeology, traditional history, and theory, and drawing on significant contributions from his own four decades of research, Kirch argues that Hawaiian polities had become states before the time of Captain Cook’s voyage (1778-1779). The status of most archaic states is inferred from the archaeological record. But Kirch shows that because Hawai‘i’s kingdoms were established relatively recently, they could be observed and recorded by Cook and other European voyagers. Substantive and provocative, this book makes a major contribution to the literature of precontact Hawai‘i and illuminates Hawai‘i’s importance in the global theory and literature about divine kingship, archaic states, and sociopolitical evolution.
Author : Kate Fullagar
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300249279
A portrait of empire through the biographies of a Native American, a Pacific Islander, and the British artist who painted them both Three interconnected eighteenth-century lives offer a fresh account of the British Empire and its intrusion into Indigenous societies. This engaging history brings together the stories of Joshua Reynolds and two Indigenous men, the Cherokee Ostenaco and the Raiatean Mai. Fullagar uncovers the life of Ostenaco, tracing his emergence as a warrior, his engagement with colonists through war and peace, and his eventual rejection of imperial politics during the American Revolution. She delves into the story of Mai, his confrontation with conquest and displacement, his voyage to London on Cook’s imperial expedition, and his return home with a burning ambition to right past wrongs. Woven throughout is a new history of Reynolds, growing up in Devon near a key port in England, becoming a portraitist of empire, rising to the top of Britain’s art world and yet remaining ambivalent about his nation’s expansionist trajectory.
Author : Laust Schouenborg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315409887
This book presents a case for a basic reorientation of International Relations away from the state and towards the study of social institutions in the sense of patterned practices, ideas and norms/rules. IR has always suffered from a parochial occupation with the state and the Western system of state. Its main theories revolve around these phenomena, and have resulted in the reification of the state: it has been turned into an essential actor, with certain immutable and fundamental properties that remain constant throughout time. A list of these properties usually includes territorial limits, centralisation, monopolisation of violence and exclusive loyalties. International Institutions in World History shows how the state is an inherently modern phenomenon, a modern social institution, and that foundational concepts in IR should be based on a full appreciation of the wider record of human existence on earth, trans-historically and cross-culturally. Schouenborg argues that these social institutions may be captured via a universal functional typology consisting of four categories: legitimacy and membership; regulating conflicts; trade; and governance. The book will be of interest to scholars and students within IR (particularly IR theory), anthropology, archaeology and sociology, and those interested in general social theory.