How Chiefs Come to Power: The Political Economy in Prehistory by Timothy Earle

How Chiefs Come to Power: The Political Economy in Prehistory

Timothy Earle

268 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction sociology informative slow-paced

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By studying chiefdoms--kin-based societies in which a person's place in a kinship system determines his or her social status and political position--this book addresses several fundamental questions concerning the nature of political power and the...

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