From tribe to empire : social organization among primitives and in the Ancient East / A. Moret and G. Davy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moret, Alexandre, 1868-1938, author.

Contributor:

Davy, Georges, 1883-1976.

Series:

Routledge history of civilization series

Standardized Title:

Clans aux empires. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Totemism.

Prehistoric peoples.

Social structure.

Egypt--Social life and customs--To 332 B.C.

Egypt.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (403 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Contents:

Cover; From Tribe To Empire: Social Organization among Primitives and in the Ancient East; Copyright; CONTENTS; FOREWORD: THE THREE PHASES OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION; FROM TRIBE TO EMPIRE; PART I SOCIAL ORGANIZATION AND THE PROGRESSIVE CONCENTRATION OF POWER IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETIES; CHAPTER I THE PROBLEM-SOCIOLOGY AND HISTORY; CHAPTER II TOTEMIC ORGANIZATION; I THE CLANS; II THE PHRATRIES. TOTEMISM AND EXOGAMY; III THE CLASSES AND THE REGULATION OF MARRIAGE; IV THE SYSTEM OF RECKONING DESCENT; V EXPLANATION OF TOTEMIC ORGANIZATION: ITS PRINCIPLE AT ONCE SOCIAL AND RELIGIOUS

CHAPTER III TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION IN RELATION TO TOTEMIC ORGANIZATIONCHAPTER IV FIRST TRACES OF INDIVIDUALIZED POWER IN THE COMMUNISTIC TOTEMICO-TERRITORIAL ORGANIZATION; CHAPTER V THE PROGRESS OF INDIVIDUALIZED POWER AND THE TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE COMMUNISTIC TOTEMIC ORGANIZATION: EVOLUTION IN MYTHOLOGY AND IN POLITICS; I THE DATA OF MYTHOLOGY; II DETERMINATION OF THE FIELD OF OBSERVATION; CHAPTER VI THE CONDITIONS OF THE INDIVIDUALIZATION OF POWER; I THE MASCULINIZATION OF KINSHIP AND AUTHORITY; II "" POTLATCH"" AND TRANSFORMED TOTEMISM; III THE ""POTLATCH"" AND THE CONFRATERNITIES

IV POWER, ""POTLATCH,"" AND PROVISIONSV POWER, ""POTLATCH,"" AND PROPERTY; PART II FROM CLANS TO KINGDOMS; CHAPTER I THE ORIGINS OF SOCIAL LIFE AND POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS IN EGYPT; I THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN, THE CRADLE OF CIVILIZATION; II THE FIRST HUMAN GROUPS IN EGYPT; III THE FIRST HISTORICAL PERIOD; IV THE THINITE MONARCHY; V THE THEORY OF AN ASIATIC INVASION OF EGYPT; CHAPTER II THE EGYPTIAN KINGDOM AND ITS NEIGHBOURS UNDER THE OLD EMPIRE; I THE ALLEGED ISOLATION OF EGYPT; II THE EGYPTIANS AND THEIR NEIGHBOURS: RACES AND TYPES; III THE FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THINITE EGYPT

IV THE PLAN OF DEFENCE OF MEMPHITE EGYPTCHAPTER III THE SEMITIC WORLD TO 2000 B.C.; I THE SEMITES AND THEIR HABITAT; II THE NOMADIC SEMITES AND THEIR PRIMITIVE INSTITUTIONS; III ELAMITES, SEDENTARY SEMITES, AND SUMERIANS IN SHINAR; IV FROM KINGDOMS TO EMPIRES OF SEMITES; V ORIENTAL POLITICS IN THE DAYS OF HAMMURABI; PART III THE FIRST EMPIRES OF THE ORIENT; CHAPTER I THE IRANIAN AND ASIANIC INVASIONS AND THE BARBARIAN EMPIRE OF THE HYKSÔS; I EGYPT AT THE HEIGHT OF HER POWER; II THE KASSITE AND HITTITE INVASIONS OF MESOPOTAMIA; III THE HYKSOS INVASION OF EGYPT

CHAPTER II THE EGYPTIAN EMPIRE AND THE CONCERT OF NATIONS IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURYI THE HYKSÔS DRIVEN FROM EGYPT; II THE EGYPTIANS IN SYRIA; III THE ORGANIZATION OF AN EGYPTIAN EMPIRE; IV THE INTERNATIONALIST POLICY OF AMENOPHIS IV (AKHENATEN); CHAPTER III THE EGYPTO-HITTITE ENTENTE AND THE PEOPLES OF THE NORTH AND OF THE SEA; I THE HITTITES IN MITANNI AND EGYPTIAN SYRIA; II SETI I AND RAMESES II IN CONFLICT WITH THE HITTITES; III THE EGYPTO-HITTITE ENTENTE; IV THE PEOPLES OF THE NORTH AND OF THE SEA IN THE EAST; V FROM THE PEOPLES OF THE SEA TO THE PERSIANS; CONCLUSION; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Notes:

First published in 2003 by Kegan Paul International.

Translation of Des clans aux empires.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 11, 2014).

ISBN:

1-136-19367-7

1-136-19360-X

0-203-03996-3

9780203039960

OCLC:

882232484