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  • Wealth inequality and the pristine Hawaiian State: a political economy approach

    Published in Origini n. XXXVIII/2015-2. Rivista annuale del Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità – “Sapienza” Università di Roma | Preistoria e protostoria delle civiltà antiche – Prehistory and protohistory of ancient civilizations

    by Timothy Earle ...
    Series Book 10 - Origini n. XXXVIII
    Archaeology provides a unique long-term perspective on the emergence of inequality, suggesting that social complexity can be organized based on alternative economic structures. To understand inequality, requires an analysis of the political economy and its diverse currencies used to create power differentials. Importantly, conspicuous consumption of wealth items, so evident in modern capitalism, ... Read more

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  • A Primer on Chiefs and Chiefdoms

    by Timothy Earle ...
    Series series
    Chiefs are political operatives who hold titles of leadership over groups larger than intimate kin-based communities. Although they rule with the consent of their group, they are all about building personal power and respect. Many scholars have viewed chiefs as problem solvers--defending groups against aggressors, resolving disputes, providing support under hardship, organizing labor for community ... Read more

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  • Bronze Age Economics

    The First Political Economies

    by Timothy Earle ...
    "Timothy Earle has set out to offer the most comprehensive view now available of the economic foundations of early societies, and it may well be that he has succeeded. Bronze Age Economics is a pioneering contribution to archaeological theory." —Colin Renfrew, University of Cambridge ... Read more

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  • Handbook of Archaeological Theories

    This handbook gathers original, authoritative articles from leading archaeologists to compile the latest thinking about archaeological theory. The authors provide a comprehensive picture of the theoretical foundations by which archaeologists contextualize and analyze their archaeological data. Student readers will also gain a sense of the immense power that theory has for building interpretations ... Read more

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  • Trust in Cooperative Risk Management

    Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind

    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world?s leading risk researchers explore all aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. Drawing on a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and empirical case studies (on topics such as mobile phone technology, ... Read more

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  • Theory in Economic Anthropology

    Series series Society for Economic Anthropology Monograph Series
    This new volume from the Society for Economic Anthropology examines the unique contributions of anthropologists to general economic theory. Editor Jean Ensminger and other contributors challenge our understanding of human economies in the expanding global systems of interaction, with models and analyses from cross-cultural research. They examine a broad range of theoretical concerns from the new ... Read more

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  • Trust in Risk Management

    Uncertainty and Scepticism in the Public Mind

    Series series Earthscan Risk in Society
    Trust is an important factor in risk management, affecting judgements of risk and benefit, technology acceptance and other forms of cooperation. In this book the world's leading risk researchers explore all aspects of trust as it relates to risk management and communication. The authors draw on a wide variety of disciplinary approaches and empirical case studies on topics such as mobile phone ... Read more

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  • Organizing Bronze Age Societies

    The Mediterranean, Central Europe, and Scandanavia Compared

    The Bronze Age was a formative period in European history when the organisation of landscapes, settlements, and economy reached a new level of complexity. This book presents the first in-depth, comparative study of household economy and settlement in three micro-regions: the Mediterranean (Sicily), Central Europe (Hungary), and Northern Europe (South Scandinavia). The results are based on ten ... Read more

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    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Modern Geography has come a long way from its historical roots in exploring foreign lands, and simply mapping and naming the regions of the world. Spanning both physical and human Geography, the discipline today is unique as a subject which can bridge the divide between the sciences and the humanities, and between the environment and our society. Using wide-ranging examples from global warming and ... Read more

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    by Ashley Dawson ...
    Some thousands of years ago, the world was home to an immense variety of large mammals. From wooly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers to giant ground sloths and armadillos the size of automobiles, these spectacular creatures roamed freely. Then human beings arrived. Devouring their way down the food chain as they spread across the planet, they began a process of voracious extinction that has ... Read more

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  • Understanding Human Values

    This volume presents theoretical, methodological, and empirical advances in understanding, and also in the effects of understanding, individual and societal values. ... Read more

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