1st Edition
Understanding Early Large-Scale Collectives A Global Perspective
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List of Contributors
Preface by David Wengrow
Chapter 1 - The State of Archaeology: An Introduction
Justin Jennings
Chapter 2 - Institutions and Governance in Northern Iroquoian Confederacies: Implications for Contact Period Geopolitics
Jennifer Birch
Chapter 3 - The Visible and Invisible Workings of Cahokia
Susan M. Alt
Chapter 4 - Networks of Power in the Chaco World: Practices, Institutions, and Ideologies of Collective Action
Barbara J. Mills and Kelsey E. Hanson
Chapter 5 - A Comparative Consideration of the Institutions of Governance of the Native American Polities of La Florida
Victor D. Thompson
Chapter 6 - The Emergence of a Large Community at Aguada Fénix and Its Legacy in Southeastern Mesoamerica
Takeshi Inomata
Chapter 7 - Multiscalar Collectivities and Governance in Precolonial Mexico, from Neighborhoods to Confederations
David M. Carballo and Aurelio López Corral
Chapter 8 - Kin, Ancestors, and Commensality: A New Vision for Wari Imperialism in Middle Horizon Peru
Justin Jennings
Chapter 9 - Resilient Margins: Innovative Political Conservatism in Crete beyond the Knossian State
Carl Knappett
Chapter 10 - Reimagining Governance in the Zimbabwe Culture: Archaeological and Anthropological Insights from Ancient Mberengwa
Robert T. Nyamushosho
Chapter 11 - States of Mobilities: Nomadic Institutions as the Foundations of Large-Scale Polities
Bryan K. Miller
Chapter 12 - Public Goods, Entrainment, and Inequality: The Reconstitution of the Shang Kingdom under Wu Ding
Roderick Campbell
Chapter 13 - Egalitarian Regimes: Inequality, Ideology, and Governance in the Indus Civilization of Bronze Age South Asia
Adam S. Green
Chapter 14 - Reimagining and Reengineering Political Complexity in Early Vietnam
Nam C. Kim
Chapter 15 - Place-Making, Fire, and the Praxis of Becoming Angkor
Mitch Hendrickson, Miriam T. Stark, Alison Carter, Piphal Heng and Stéphanie Leroy
Chapter 16 - Islands of Ideology: Exploring Group Formation and Governance in Hawaiʻi
Seth Quintus
Chapter 17 - Reframing Premodern Governance: Synthesis and Prospect
Gary M. Feinman
Index
Biography
Justin Jennings is Senior Curator of the Archaeology of the Americas at the Royal Ontario Museum and Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Toronto.
