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Orderly anarchy : sociopolitical evolution in aboriginal California /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bettinger, Robert L. (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2015]
Subjects:
Indians of North America > California > Civilization.
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Table of Contents:
  • Defining California
  • Jorgensen's western North American indians sample
  • Regional variation
  • Orderly anarchy
  • California in broad evolutionary perspective
  • The evolutionary fate of hunting and gathering
  • The rise and fall of agriculture in western North America
  • The evolution of intensive hunting and gathering in eastern California
  • Intensification studies in California
  • Ideal free distribution
  • Plant intensification in eastern California
  • Introduction of bow and arrow technology
  • Effects of the bow
  • Hunter-gatherer group size, subsistence risk, and resource pooling
  • The small group shift in Owens Valley
  • Alternative routes to plant intensification
  • The privatization of food
  • Pinyon intensification in eastern California
  • Family band organization
  • Murdock's theory of social organization
  • The social organization of Great Basin family bands
  • Why pinyon?
  • The generalization and spread of privatization
  • Plant intensification west of the Sierra crest
  • Appearance of the bow and intensification
  • Acorns as a resource
  • Archaeology of acorn use and intensification
  • Medieval climatic anomaly
  • Patrilineal bands, sibs, and tribelets
  • The patrilineal band
  • Privatization and the evolution of tribelets
  • The archaeology of tribelet development
  • The role of property
  • Back to the band : bilateral tribelets and bands
  • Demise of the patrilineal tribelet
  • Patrilineal to bilateral organization
  • Ascent of the individual
  • Emergence of anarchy and the Yurok-Karuk-Hupa household group
  • Cooperation in the presence of anarchy
  • Discussion
  • Money
  • Background
  • Why money in California?
  • How California money might have evolved
  • Money and inequality
  • The evolution of orderly anarchy
  • Motivation crowding
  • Mind-set in aboriginal California
  • Aboriginal orderly anarchy in evolutionary perspective
  • Quantifying organizational authority
  • The evolutionary landscape : results
  • Money
  • The importance of subsistence economy
  • Orderly anarchy more generally
  • Hierarchy versus orderly anarchy : alternative adaptive strategies
  • Orderly anarchy now and in the future.