Robert L. Bettinger 
Orderly Anarchy [EPUB ebook] 
Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California

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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.

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Table des matières

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

A propos de l’auteur

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.

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Langue Anglais ● Format EPUB ● Pages 312 ● ISBN 9780520959194 ● Taille du fichier 9.4 MB ● Maison d’édition University of California Press ● Publié 2015 ● Édition 1 ● Téléchargeable 24 mois ● Devise EUR ● ID 5511963 ● Protection contre la copie Adobe DRM
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