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Cultural Evolution

Contemporary Viewpoints

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Editors:
  1. Gary M. Feinman

    1. The Field Museum, Chicago

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  2. Linda Manzanilla

    1. Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Cultural Evolutionary Approaches and Archaeology

      • Gary M. Feinman
      Pages 3-12

  3. Technological Change and Economic Specialization

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-14
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    2. Guilá Naquitz Revisited

      • Bruce D. Smith
      Pages 15-60

    3. The Evolution of the Tipití

      • Robert L. Carneiro
      Pages 61-93

    4. Accelerated Technological Change in Archaeology and Ancient History

      • Robert McC. Adams
      Pages 95-118

    5. High-Intensity Household-Scale Production in Ancient Mesoamerica

      • Gary M. Feinman, Linda M. Nicholas
      Pages 119-142

  4. Political Complexity and Its Emergence

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 143-144
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    2. Lightning and Jaguars

      • Charles S. Spencer, Elsa M. Redmond
      Pages 145-175

    3. Games, Players, Rules, and Circumstances

      • Robert D. Drennan
      Pages 177-196

    4. Modeling Tributary Economies and Hierarchical Polities

      • Henry T. Wright
      Pages 197-213

    5. The Development of Administration from Collective to Centralized Economies in the Mesopotamian World

      • Marcella Frangipane
      Pages 215-232

  5. Conclusions

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 233-233
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    2. A Concluding Perspective on the Theoretical Contributions of Kent V. Flannery

      • Gary M. Feinman
      Pages 235-241

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 243-269
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About this book

Drawing on Kent Flannery's forty years of cross-cultural research in the area, the contributors to this collection reflect the current diversity of contemporary approaches to the study of cultural evolutionary processes. Collectively the volume expresses the richness of the issues being investigated by comparative theorists interested in long-term change, as well as the wide variety of data, approaches, and ideas that researchers are employing to examine these questions.

Reviews

'All of the chapters are top-knotch, and several make major strides toward understanding the emergence of complexity in more comprehensive theoretical terms. Flannery is definitely to be commended for stimulating such a broad body of research on the cultural evolution of political and economic complexity. Would I buy this book? My answer is another "Yes". Every faculty member interested in the subject certainly should add it to his professional library.'
Journal of Anthropological Research, 58 (2002)
`...this volume's coverage encompasses much of the diversity in conventional cultural evolutionary and processual paradigms and some of the chapters offer quite contemporary solutions to hitherto divisive issues. Overall, the contributions, written by renowned senior scholars, have the quality, depth, and breadth to be of wide interest to current evolutionary archaeologists.'
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8:4 (2002)

"In summary, this volume's coverage encompasses much of the diversity in conventional cultural evolutionary and processual paradigms and some of the chapters offer quite contemparary solutions to hitherto diversive issues. Overall, the contributions, written by renowned senior scholars, have the quality, depth, and breadth to be of wide interest to current evolutionary archaeologists." (Marilyn Masson; Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 8:4)

Editors and Affiliations

  • The Field Museum, Chicago

    Gary M. Feinman

  • Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico

    Linda Manzanilla

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cultural Evolution

  • Book Subtitle: Contemporary Viewpoints

  • Editors: Gary M. Feinman, Linda Manzanilla

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4173-8

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2000

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-46240-5Published: 30 June 2000

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4613-6871-7Published: 21 January 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-4173-8Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 269

  • Topics: Archaeology, Anthropology

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