Foundations of Social Inequality

T Douglas Price editor Gary M Feinman editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Published:13th Jul '13

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In this authoritative volume, leading researchers offer diverse theoretical perspectives and a wide-range of information on the beginnings and nature of social inequality in past human societies. This volume features numerous case studies from the Old and New World spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups and complex states.In this authoritative volume, leading researchers offer diverse theoretical perspectives and a wide-range of information on the beginnings and nature of social inequality in past human societies. Their illuminating work investigates the role of status differentiation in traditional archaeological debates and major societal transitions. This volume features numerous case studies from the Old and New World spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups and complex states. Diachronic in view and archaeological in focus, this book will be of significant interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, and students.

ISBN: 9781489912916

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 480g

290 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1995