Pathways to Power New Perspectives on the Emergence of Social Inequality /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Price, T. Douglas. (Editor), Feinman, Gary M. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: Fundamental Issues in Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6300-0

There are few questions more central to understanding the prehistory of our species than those regarding the institutionalization of social inequality. Social inequality is manifested in unequal access to goods, information, decision-making, and power. This structure is essential to higher orders of...

Table of Contents:

• Who Tilted the Playing Field
• Degrees and Kinds of Inequality
• Gimme That Old Time Religion
• Traces of Inequality at the Origin of Culture
• Decentralized Complexity
• Bitter Arrows and Generous Gifts
• Who Benefits from Complexity?- Dual-Processual Theory.