Orderly Anarchy: Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California: 8 (Origins of Human Behavior and Culture) - Hardcover

Bettinger, Robert L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520283333 ISBN 13: 9780520283336

Verlag: University of California Press, 2015

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"Extraordinary and orginial ... A terrific book!" -- W. S. Simmons CHOICE "Well written, tightly reasoned, and intellectually stimulating." American Anthropologist

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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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• Verlag: University of California Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0520283333
• ISBN 13: 9780520283336
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 312