Order, legitimacy, and wealth in ancient states /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, U.K. ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2000.
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| Series: | New directions in archaeology.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: ideology, wealth, and the comparative study of "civilizations" / Mary Van Buren, Janet Richards
- Order, legitimacy, and wealth: setting the terms / John Baines, Norman Yoffe
- Society and individual in early Egypt / David O'Conner
- Modified order, responsive legitimacy, redistributed wealth: Egypt 2260-1650 BC / Janet Richards
- Law courts and the mediation of social conflict in ancient Mesopotamia / Norman Yoffee
- High culture, Mesoamerican civilization, and the classic Maya tradition / Rosemary A. Joyce
- Political fragmentation and ideological continuity in the Andean highlands / Mary Van Buren
- Wealth and socioeconomic hierarchies of the Indus Valley civilization / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer
- Classical order, alternative orders, and the uses of nostalgia / Susan E. Alcock
- Order, legitimacy, and wealth in ancient China / Bennet Bronson
- The politics of high culture: issues of worth and rank / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel.