Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The Comparative analysis of social and political transitions / John Gledhill
  • Small fish in a big sea : Geographical dispersion and sociopolitical centralization in the Marshall Islands / Laurence Marshall Carucci
  • Evolution, sequential hierarchy, and areal integration : The Case of traditional samoan society / Thomas Bargatzky
  • The Hawaiian transformation of ancestral polynesian society : Conceptualizing chiefly states / Matthew Spriggs
  • State formation and uneven development / Christine Ward Gailey, Thomas C. Patterson
  • Subsistence, social control of resources and the development of complex society in the Vallery od Mexico / Brigitte Boehm de Lameiras
  • Hierarchization in maya segmentary states / John W. Fox
  • A Cycle of development and decline in the early phases of civilization in Palestine : An Analysis of the intermediate bronze period [2200-2000 BC] / Talia Shay
  • Emerging towns in Benin and Ishan [Nigeria] AD 500-1500 / P.J. Darling
  • Control of resources in the medieval period / C.G. Harfield
  • Copper production and eastern mediterranean trade : The Rise of complex society on Cyprus / A. Bernard Knapp
  • Introduction : Literacy and social complexity / Mogens Trolle Larsen
  • Literacy, social organization, and the archaeological record : The Case of early Egypt / John Baines
  • Power and authority in early historic scotland : Pictish symbol stones and other documents / Stephen T. Driscoll
  • Literacy and power : The Introduction and use of writing in early historic scotland / Margaret R. Nieke
  • Inventions of writing / Michael Harbsmeier
  • Patrimonialism, involution, and the agrarian question in Java : A Weberian analysis of class relations and servile labour / J.I. Bakker
  • Legacies of empire : Political centralization and class formation in the Hispanic-American world / John Gledhill
  • The Centralization of education in Mexico : Subordination and autonomy / Humberto González Chávez