Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Creation of InequalityCondition: NewEAN: 9780674416772ISBN: 9780674416772Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 10/01/2014Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmLanguage: EnglishSubtitle: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and EmpireISBN-10: 0674416775Description: 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.Country/Region of Manufacture: USAuthor: Kent Flannery, Joyce MarcusGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, History, Ancient HistoryItem Width: 41mmItem Weight: 726gRelease Year: 2014 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Creation of Inequality
Title: The Creation of Inequality
EAN: 9780674416772
ISBN: 9780674416772
Release Date: 10/01/2014
Release Year: 2014
Subtitle: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery
ISBN-10: 0674416775
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Ancient History
Number of Pages: 648 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Creation of Inequality : How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and Empire
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Item Height: 1.6 in
Publication Year: 2014
Subject: Civilization, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Life Sciences / Evolution, Sociology / General, Anthropology / General
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 25.6 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Social Science, Science, History
Author: Joyce Marcus, Kent Flannery
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
