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Pages: 332
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989-07-13 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 448
Pages: 448
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-03-15 - Publisher: Univ of California Press
Providing a synthesis of archaeological and historical anthropological knowledge of the indigenous cultures of the Pacific islands, this text focuses on human e
Language: en
Pages: 286
Pages: 286
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-07 - Publisher: University of California Press
In How Chiefs Became Kings, Patrick Vinton Kirch addresses a central problem in anthropological archaeology: the emergence of “archaic states” whose distinc
Language: en
Pages: 312
Pages: 312
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Computer Science Press, Incorporated
Language: en
Pages: 360
Pages: 360
Type: BOOK - Published: 1993-04 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press
These eleven case studies of different chiefdoms examine how ruling elites retain and legitimize their power.