000642329 000__ 04331cam\a2200445Ia\4500 000642329 001__ 642329 000642329 005__ 20210515071707.0 000642329 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 000642329 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 000642329 008__ 140217s2012\\\\mauab\\\ob\\\\001\0\eng\d 000642329 010__ $$z 2011039902 000642329 020__ $$a9780674064973$$qelectronic book 000642329 020__ $$z0674064690 000642329 020__ $$z9780674064690 000642329 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocn794003565 000642329 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10568012 000642329 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000642329 05014 $$aGN740$$b.F54 2012eb 000642329 08204 $$a569.9$$223 000642329 1001_ $$aFlannery, Kent V. 000642329 24514 $$aThe creation of inequality$$h[electronic resource] :$$bhow our prehistoric ancestors set the stage for monarchy, slavery, and empire /$$cKent Flannery, Joyce Marcus. 000642329 260__ $$aCambridge, Mass. :$$bHarvard University Press,$$c2012. 000642329 300__ $$a1 online resource (xiii, 631 p.) :$$bill., maps. 000642329 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000642329 5050_ $$aPreface -- Part 1: Starting Out Equal: -- 1: Genesis and exodus -- 2: Rousseau's "state of nature" -- 3: Ancestors and enemies -- 4: Why our ancestors had religion and the arts -- 5: Inequality without agriculture -- Part 2: Balancing Prestige And Equality: -- 6: Agriculture and achieved renown -- 7: Ritual buildings of achievement-based societies -- 8: Prehistory of the ritual house -- 9: Prestige and equality in four Native American societies -- Part 3: Societies That Made Inequality Hereditary: -- 10: Rise and fall of hereditary inequality in farming societies -- 11: Three sources of power in chiefly societies -- 12: From ritual house to temple in the Americas -- 13: Aristocracy without chiefs -- 14: Temples and inequality in early Mesopotamia -- 15: Chiefly societies in our backyard -- 16: How to turn rank into stratification: tales of the South Pacific -- Part 4: Inequality In Kingdoms And Empires: -- 17: How to create a kingdom -- 18: Three of the New World's first-generation kingdoms -- 19: Land of the Scorpion King -- 20: Black ox hides and golden stools -- 21: Nursery of civilization -- 22: Graft and imperialism -- 23: How new empires learn from old -- Part 5: Resisting Inequality: -- 24: Inequality and natural law -- Notes -- Sources of illustrations -- Index. 000642329 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000642329 520__ $$aOverview: Our early ancestors lived in small groups and worked actively to preserve social equality. As they created larger societies, however, inequality rose, and by 2500 BCE truly egalitarian societies were on the wane. In The Creation of Inequality, Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus demonstrate that this development was not simply the result of population increase, food surplus, or the accumulation of valuables. Instead, inequality resulted from conscious manipulation of the unique social logic that lies at the core of every human group. A few societies allowed talented and ambitious individuals to rise in prestige while still preventing them from becoming a hereditary elite. But many others made high rank hereditary, by manipulating debts, genealogies, and sacred lore. At certain moments in history, intense competition among leaders of high rank gave rise to despotic kingdoms and empires in the Near East, Egypt, Africa, Mexico, Peru, and the Pacific. Drawing on their vast knowledge of both living and prehistoric social groups, Flannery and Marcus describe the changes in logic that create larger and more hierarchical societies, and they argue persuasively that many kinds of inequality can be overcome by reversing these changes, rather than by violence. 000642329 588__ $$aDescription based on print version record. 000642329 650_0 $$aPrehistoric peoples. 000642329 650_0 $$aPower (Social sciences) 000642329 650_0 $$aSocial evolution. 000642329 650_0 $$aSocial stratification. 000642329 650_0 $$aAnthropology, Prehistoric. 000642329 650_0 $$aEquality. 000642329 650_0 $$aHuman evolution. 000642329 7001_ $$aMarcus, Joyce. 000642329 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aFlannery, Kent V.$$tCreation of inequality.$$dCambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2012$$z9780674064690$$w(DLC) 2011039902$$w(OCoLC)758384090 000642329 8520_ $$bacq 000642329 85280 $$bebk$$hEbrary 000642329 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=3301069$$zOnline Access 000642329 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:642329$$pGLOBAL_SET 000642329 980__ $$aEBOOK 000642329 980__ $$aBIB 000642329 982__ $$aEbook 000642329 983__ $$aOnline