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Title: How Chiefs Come to Power: The Political Economy in Prehistory
Description: Stanford [CA], Stanford University Press, 1997. orig.cloth. 22x14cm, xv,250 pp. Textual illustrations. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Introduction: The Nature of Political Power; The Long-Term Developments of Three Chiefdoms: Denmark, Hawai'i, and the Andes; Sources of Economic Power; Military Power: The Strategic Use of Naked Force; Ideology as a Source of Power; Chiefly Power Strategies & the Emergence of Complex Political Institutions.

Keywords: Political Anthropology, Prehistory, Chieftainship, Politics Sociology, Economy Economic, Economics History, Social Theory, Chiefdoms Power, Archeology

Price: US$ 57.00 Seller: Expatriate Bookshop of Denmark
- Book number: BOOKS005243I