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How Chiefs Came to Power|Timothy Earle

How Chiefs Came to Power : The Political Economy in Prehistory

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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 evolution of sociopolitical complexity. In a chiefdom, the highest-status male (first son by the fist wife) holds both authority and special access to economic, military, and ideological power, and others derive privilege from their positions in the chiefly hierarchy.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780804728560
  • ISBN-10: 0804728569
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • Publish Date: August 1997
  • Dimensions: 8.53 x 5.58 x 0.69 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 0.76 pounds
  • Page Count: 268

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