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The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire (English Edition) Formato Kindle

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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.

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Recensione

"This provocative work, likely to become an important contribution to the literature of social and political anthropology, will be of interest both to scholars in the field and to anthropology and archaeology enthusiasts seeking understanding of the development and perpetuation of inequality in human societies." --Elizabeth Salt, Library Journal, 1st June 2012

"These two examples illustrate the vale of an approach integrating social anthropology with archaeology. The Creation of Inequality contains many other insights and will reward a reader who is not afraid to do some work." --Peter Turchin, TLS, 8th March, 2013

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Kent Flannery is James B. Griffin Distinguished University Professor of AnthropologicalArchaeology and Curator, Environmental Archaeology at the Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B008FD881W
  • Editore ‏ : ‎ Harvard University Press (7 maggio 2012)
  • Lingua ‏ : ‎ Inglese
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  • Lunghezza stampa ‏ : ‎ 646 pagine
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Eo Oe
5,0 su 5 stelle A look at the mechanisms behind ‘civilisation’, culture, and forms of government.
Recensito nei Paesi Bassi il 24 luglio 2020
Of course it is not my fault that the concept of ‘social logic’ is new to me, but I will never look at the struggles between and within societies like I did: we all have a different -and often incompatable- fantasie about how ‘we’ became a ‘we’, or abuot how ‘we’ should be ‘we’.
Not a book to read during lunch break, and halve the number of pages would probably have done the job, but as an introduction, for me, it feels like a very valuable book -learning is repeating, and man man man, did I learn!
Alexios Xifaras
5,0 su 5 stelle A tour de force ! Must-read for anyone interested in the origins of inequality.
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 7 ottobre 2019
Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus, both prominent archaeologists, have produced a magisterial work about the origins of inequality and stratified societies. Their approach is neo-Darwinian and for that they have received strong criticism (e.g. Lane Fargher and Richard Blanton). They have, also, been criticized by Graeber and Wengrow and by Felipe Fernández-Armesto, for their omission to mention that there were rich burials since the Ice Age and therefore that inequality could be found even to the paleolithic hunter gatherer societies. Despite those omissions, weakness of their approach and even faults to some points, their book is impressive. They use a multitude of ethnological and archaeological data to support their thesis. They also introduce a very useful distinction between "achievement based hierarchies" and "hereditary hierarchies". The result is an enjoyable and very informative book. I highly recommend it !
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5,0 su 5 stelle Recomiendo este libro
Recensito in Messico il 3 agosto 2017
A pesar de que exiten varios textos sobre el tema, recomiendo este libro de Flannery y Marcus ya que actualiza con datos e interpretaciones, uno de los procesos más importantes estudiados por la arqueología antropológica que es el surgimiento de Sociedades Complejas. Es útil como libro de texto en universidades así como público interesado
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5,0 su 5 stelle A great evolution of human society
Recensito negli Stati Uniti il 5 marzo 2014
I only took one course in anthropology in college - enough to get me started; however, I am an engineering/math type person. I thoroughly enjoyed learning about the development of humans while society, cities, culture and law as humans have progressed to the state we currently are at. The author has excellent writing in getting this point across as well as in organization and keeping the interest. I suggest all to read this. The author has great insight into humanity.
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marco carrara
4,0 su 5 stelle Great but two thirds too long.
Recensito nel Regno Unito il 27 agosto 2015
The book is very well researched. The problem is that I bought it for its social science title and I got an archeology book. Most of the book is fillled with accurate descriptions of archeological findings that are far too detailed for a social science book. The authors, two archeologists, rightly say that collaboration between archeologists and anthropologists can give great results. Then they proceed writing a book that is 90% archeologically oriented. The book is good, but if you are interested in inequality from a social point of view you can skip two thirds without losing anything.
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