Description: Orderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations. Scholars have tended to emphasize the development of social complexity and inequality to explain this diversity. Robert L. Bettinger argues instead that "orderly anarchy," the emergence of small, autonomous groups, provided a crucial strategy in social organization. Drawing on ethnographic and archaeological data and evolutionary, economic, and anthropological theory, he shows that these small groups devised diverse solutions to environmental, technological, and social obstacles to the intensified use of resources. This book revises our understanding of how California became the most densely populated landscape in aboriginal North America.
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EAN: 9780520283336
UPC: 9780520283336
ISBN: 9780520283336
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Book Title: Orderly Anarchy: Sociopolitical Evolution in Abori
Item Length: 23.1 cm
Number of Pages: 312 Pages
Publication Name: Orderly Anarchy: Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California
Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Item Height: 229 mm
Subject: Anthropology
Publication Year: 2015
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 635 g
Subject Area: Regional History
Author: Robert L. Bettinger
Item Width: 152 mm
Series: Origins of Human Behavior and Culture
Format: Hardcover
