Del 8 i serien Origins of Human Behavior and Culture

Orderly Anarchy

Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

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Orderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations. Scholars have tended to emphasize the development of social complexity and inequality to explain this diversity. Robert L. Bettinger argues instead that "orderly anarchy," the emergence of small, autonomous groups, provided a crucial strategy in social organization. Drawing on ethnographic and archaeological data and evolutionary, economic, and anthropological theory, he shows that these small groups devised diverse solutions to environmental, technological, and social obstacles to the intensified use of resources. This book revises our understanding of how California became the most densely populated landscape in aboriginal North America.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-01-07
Mått152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt635 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOrigins of Human Behavior and Culture
Antal sidor312
FörlagUniversity of California Press
ISBN9780520283336

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Robert L. Bettinger, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, is an authority on ethnographic and archaeological hunter-gatherers and the author of Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological and Evolutionary Theory, Hunter-Gatherer Foraging: Five Simple Models, and many peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles. He is also the recipient of the Society for American Archaeology Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis and the Society for California Archaeology M. A. Baumhoff Special Achievement Award.

List of Figures and Boxes Acknowledgments 1. Introduction 2. California in Broad Evolutionary Perspective 3. The Evolution of Intensive Hunting and Gathering in Eastern California 4. The Privatization of Food 5. Plant Intensification West of the Sierra Crest 6. Patrilineal Bands, Sibs, and Tribelets 7. Back to the Band: Bilateral Tribelets and Bands 8. Money 9. The Evolution of Orderly Anarchy 10. Conclusion Glossary References Index