The archaeology of tribal societies / edited by William A. Parkinson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Parkinson, William A.

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Archaeological series (Ann Arbor, Mich.) ; 15.

Archaeological series ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tribes.

Villages.

Social structure--Cross-cultural studies.

Social structure.

Social archaeology.

Genre:

Cross-cultural studies.

Physical Description:

vii, 438 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : International Monographs in Prehistory, [2002]

Summary:

Anthropological archaeologists have long attempted to develop models that will let them better understand the evolution of human social organization. In our search to understand how chiefdoms and states evolve, and how those societies differ from egalitarian 'bands', we have neglected to develop models that will aid the understanding of the wide range of variability that exists between them. This volume attempts to fill this gap by exploring social organization in tribal - or 'autonomous village' - societies from several different ethnographic, ethnohistoric, and archaeological contexts - from the Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period in the Near East to the contemporary Jivaro of Amazonia.

Contents:

Part I Theoretical Considerations

1. Introduction: Archaeology and Tribal Societies / William A. Parkinson 1

2. From Social Type to Social Process: Placing 'Tribe' in a Historical Framework / Severin M. Fowles 13

3. The Tribal Village and Its Culture: An Evolutionary Stage in the History of Human Society / Robert L. Carneiro 34

Part II Ethnographic and Ethnohistoric Perspectives

4. The Long and the Short of a War Leader's Arena / Elsa M. Redmond 53

5. Inequality and Egalitarian Rebellion, a Tribal Dialectic in Tonga History / Severin M. Fowles 74

6. The Dynamics of Ethnicity in Tribal Society: A Penobscot Case Study / Dean Snow 97

7. Modeling the Formation and Evolution of an Illyrian Tribal System: Ethnographic and Archaeological Analogs / Michael Galaty 109

Part III Archaeological Perspectives from the New World

8. Mobility and the Organization of Prehispanic Southwest Communities / Sarah A. Herr, Jeffery J. Clark 123

9. Building Consensus: Tribes, Architecture, and Typology in the American Southwest / Michael Adler 155

10. Fractal Archaeology: Intra-Generational Cycles and the Matter of Scale, an Example from the Central Plains / Donald J. Blakeslee 173

11. Material Indicators of Territory, Identity, and Interaction in a Prehistoric Tribal System / John M. O'Shea, Claire McHale Milner 200

12. Hopewell Tribes: A Study of Middle Woodland Social Organization in the Ohio Valley / Richard W. Yerkes 227

13. The Evolution of Tribal Social Organization in the Southeastern United States / David G. Anderson 246

14. Mesoamerica's Tribal Foundations / John E. Clark, David Cheetham 278

Part IV Archaeological Perspectives from the Old World

15. Early Neolithic Tribes in the Levant / Ofer Bar-Yosef, Daniella E. Bar-Yosef Mayer 340

16. A Neolithic Tribal Society in Northern Poland / Peter Bogucki 372

17. Some Aspects of the Social Organization of the LBK of Belgium / Lawrence H. Keeley 384

18. Integration, Interaction, and Tribal 'Cycling': The Transition to the Copper Age on the Great Hungarian Plain / William A. Parkinson 391.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

1879621355

1879621347

OCLC:

52091850