The evolution of human societies
Subtitle: from foraging group to agrarian state
By: Allen W. Johnson & Timothy Earle.
Contributors: Earle, Timothy K.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 440
Subjects: Social evolution; Ethnology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Theorizing sociocultural evolution -- Theories of economic motivation -- The evolutionary process -- The evolutionary typology -- The plan of the book -- The family level. In search of undomesticated humans -- Theorizing the family-level society -- The primary dynamics of the family-level economy and society -- Family-level foragers. Case 1 : The Shoshone of the Great Basin -- Case 2 : The !Kung of the Kalahari -- Prehistoric foraging societies -- Conclusions -- Families with domestication. Case 3 : The Machiguenga of the Peruvian Amazon -- Case 4 : The Nganasan of Northern Siberia -- Conclusions -- The local group. The domestication of the human species -- Theorizing the local group -- The primary dynamics of local group economy and society -- The family and the village. Case 5 : The Yanomamo of the Venezuelan Highlands -- The Village and the clan. Case 6 : The Eskimos of the North Slope of Alaska -- Case 7 : The Tsembaga Maring of New Guinea -- Case 8 : The Turkana of Kenya -- Conclusions -- The corporate group and the big man collectivity. Case 9 : Indian Fishermen of the Northwest Coast -- Case 10 : The Central Enga of Highland New Guinea -- Case 11 : The Kirghiz of Northeastern Afghanistan -- Conclusions -- The Regional Polity. The political revolution: the origins of civilizations -- Theorizing the regional polity -- The primary dynamics of the regional polity -- The simple chiefdom. Case 12 : The Trobriand Islanders -- Conclusions -- The complex chiefdom. Case 13 : The Hawaiian Islanders -- Case 14 : The Basseri of Iran -- Conclusions -- The archaic state. Case 15. France and Japan in the Middle Ages -- Case 16. The Inka [Inca] : an Andean empire -- Conclusions -- The peasant economy in the agrarian state. Case 17 : The Brazilian sharecroppers of Boa Ventura -- Case 18 : The Chinese villagers of Taitou -- Case 19 : The Javanese villagers of Kali Loro -- The Evolution of global society. Theorizing contemporary change -- Social evolution and the free market.