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Nomadic Pathways in Social Evolution
Author | : Kradin, Nikolay N.,Barfield, Thomas J. |
Publsiher | : MeaBooks Inc |
Total Pages | : 190 |
Release | : 2015-04-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780994032560 |
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The book is written by anthropologists, historians, and archaeologists specializing in nomadic studies. All the chapters presented here discuss various aspects of one significant problem: how could small nomadic peoples at the outskirts of agricultural civilizations subjugate vast territories between the Mediterranean and the Pacific? What was the impetus that set in motion the overwhelming forces of the nomads which made tremble the royal courts of Europe and Asia? Was it an outcome of any predictable historical process or a result of a chain of random events? A wide sample of nomadic peoples is discussed, mainly on the basis of new data
Alternatives of Social Evolution
Author | : Nikolay Kradin,A. Korotayev,D. Bondarenko (Eds. ) |
Publsiher | : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 492 |
Release | : 2011-04 |
Genre | : Social evolution |
ISBN | : 384432433X |
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The present volume is an attempt of an international research team to make a complex study in the social evolution processes in prehistory in their spatial and temporal variations. The authors hope that their survey can and should also promote a better understanding of the evolution from prehistoric bands to complex states and pre-industrial empires. The volume consists of five parts and 27 chapters. The first part includes theoretical studies of non- linear evolution. Articles on the alternative pathways of the prehistoric societies' evolution form the volume's second part. The evolutionary pathways of complex societies and state origins are the topics of the volume's third and forth parts. The closing part is devoted to nomadic societies. We hope that the book has not lost its relevance since its first edition's publication in 2000 and will remain in demand by readers.
Comparative Archaeologies
Author | : Ludomir R Lozny |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 850 |
Release | : 2011-04-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781441982254 |
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Archaeology, as with all of the social sciences, has always been characterized by competing theoretical propositions based on diverse bodies of locally acquired data. In order to fulfill local, regional expectations, different goals have been assigned to the practitioners of Archaeology in different regions. These goals might be entrenched in local politics, or social expectations behind cultural heritage research. This comprehensive book explores regional archaeologies from a sociological perspective—to identify and explain regional differences in archaeological practice, as well as their existing similarities. This work covers not only the currently-dominant Anglo-American archaeological paradigm, but also Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia, and Africa, all of which have developed their own unique archaeological traditions. The contributions in this work cover these "alternative archaeologies," in the context of their own geographical, political, and socio-economic settings, as well as the context of the currently accepted mainstream approaches.
The Evolution of Social Institutions
Author | : Dmitri M. Bondarenko,Stephen A. Kowalewski,David B. Small |
Publsiher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 2020-09-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9783030514372 |
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This book presents a novel and innovative approach to the study of social evolution using case studies from the Old and the New World, from prehistory to the present. This approach is based on examining social evolution through the evolution of social institutions. Evolution is defined as the process of structural change. Within this framework the society, or culture, is seen as a system composed of a vast number of social institutions that are constantly interacting and changing. As a result, the structure of society as a whole is also evolving and changing. The authors posit that the combination of evolving social institutions explains the non-linear character of social evolution and that every society develops along its own pathway and pace. Within this framework, society should be seen as the result of the compound effect of the interactions of social institutions specific to it. Further, the transformation of social institutions and relations between them is taking place not only within individual societies but also globally, as institutions may be trans-societal, and even institutions that operate in one society can arise as a reaction to trans-societal trends and demands. The book argues that it may be more productive to look at institutions even within a given society as being parts of trans-societal systems of institutions since, despite their interconnectedness, societies still have boundaries, which their members usually know and respect. Accordingly, the book is a must-read for researchers and scholars in various disciplines who are interested in a better understanding of the origins, history, successes and failures of social institutions.
A Civil Society with No Hierarchy
Author | : Ilie Bădescu,Joseph Livni |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 349 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : Civil society |
ISBN | : 9781666903713 |
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"Acephalous societies live in the rainforest or on prairies as nomadic pastoralists. The covenantal societies are acephalous; however, they inhabit the sedentary civilized world. This collection of up-to-date research focuses on the sociology, politics, justice administration, relations with hierarchies, successes, and failures of these societies"--
The Huns Rome and the Birth of Europe
Author | : Hyun Jin Kim |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781107009066 |
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A comparative and interdisciplinary study arguing for a more sophisticated appreciation of the rise of the Hunnic Empire.
Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change
Author | : Reuven Amitai,Michal Biran |
Publsiher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2014-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780824847890 |
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Since the first millennium BCE, nomads of the Eurasian steppe have played a key role in world history and the development of adjacent sedentary regions, especially China, India, the Middle East, and Eastern and Central Europe. Although their more settled neighbors often saw them as an ongoing threat and imminent danger—“barbarians,” in fact—their impact on sedentary cultures was far more complex than the raiding, pillaging, and devastation with which they have long been associated in the popular imagination. The nomads were also facilitators and catalysts of social, demographic, economic, and cultural change, and nomadic culture had a significant influence on that of sedentary Eurasian civilizations, especially in cases when the nomads conquered and ruled over them. Not simply passive conveyors of ideas, beliefs, technologies, and physical artifacts, nomads were frequently active contributors to the process of cultural exchange and change. Their active choices and initiatives helped set the cultural and intellectual agenda of the lands they ruled and beyond. This volume brings together a distinguished group of scholars from different disciplines and cultural specializations to explore how nomads played the role of “agents of cultural change.” The beginning chapters examine this phenomenon in both east and west Asia in ancient and early medieval times, while the bulk of the book is devoted to the far flung Mongol empire of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This comparative approach, encompassing both a lengthy time span and a vast region, enables a clearer understanding of the key role that Eurasian pastoral nomads played in the history of the Old World. It conveys a sense of the complex and engaging cultural dynamic that existed between nomads and their agricultural and urban neighbors, and highlights the non-military impact of nomadic culture on Eurasian history. Nomads as Agents of Cultural Change illuminates and complicates nomadic roles as active promoters of cultural exchange within a vast and varied region. It makes available important original scholarship on the new turn in the study of the Mongol empire and on relations between the nomadic and sedentary worlds.
Chiefdoms
Author | : Robert L. Carneiro,Leonid E. Grinin,Andrey V Korotayev |
Publsiher | : Eliot Werner Publications |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2017-12-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781733376952 |
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What many anthropologists regard as the major step in political development occurred when, for the first time in history, previously autonomous villages gave up their individual sovereignties and were brought together into a multi-village political unit--the chiefdom. Though long neglected as a major stage in history, recent years have seen the chiefdom come in for increased attention. As its importance has been more fully recognized, it has become the object of serious scholarly analysis and interpretation. In this volume specialists in political evolution draw on data from ethnography, archaeology, and history and apply fresh insights to enhance the study of the chiefdom. The papers present penetrating analyses of many aspects of the chiefdom, from how this form of political organization first arose to the role it played in giving rise to the next major stage in the development of human society--the state.