Orderly anarchy :: sociopolitical evolution in aboriginal California /

"A provocative and innovative reexamination of the trajectory of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, this book explains the region's prehistorically rich diversity of languages, populations, and environmental adaptations. Ethnographic and archaeological dat...

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1. Verfasser: Bettinger, Robert L. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Schriftenreihe:Origins of human behavior and culture ; 8.
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Zusammenfassung:"A provocative and innovative reexamination of the trajectory of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, this book explains the region's prehistorically rich diversity of languages, populations, and environmental adaptations. Ethnographic and archaeological data and evolutionary, economic, and anthropological theory are often presented to explain the evolution of increasing social complexity and inequality. In this account, these same data and theories are employed to argue for an evolving pattern of 'orderly anarchy, ' which featured small, inward-looking groups that, having devised a diverse range of ingenious solutions to the many environmental, technological, and social obstacles to resource intensification, were crowded onto what they had turned into the most densely populated landscape in aboriginal North America"--Provided by publisher
Beschreibung:1 online resource
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780520959194
0520959191
1322394237
9781322394237

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