From Chiefdom to State: The Contribution of Social Structural Dynamics
Journal Title: Social Evolution & History - Year 2015, Vol 14, Issue 2
Abstract
Unlike previous theory that focused on external conditions to explain the rise of the state, this paper proposes an explanation grounded in social structural dynamics. Like previous theory, we see the state as developing out of increasingly intense conflict, but here that conflict is traced, not to population pressure, but to instabilities of the status lineage structures of contending chiefdoms. The social structure of the state is seen as the outcome of strategies adopted to stabilize the chiefdom social structure.
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Yamilette Chacon, David Willer, Pamela Emanuelson, Richard Chacon
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