Preface
introduction

01 Ethnography of Chieftaincy Society on Power and Authority

The chiefdom as a political community
stripe
Headquarters
Chief society
The Federation of Chiefs
Use of ethnography
Chiefdoms of the Pacific Islands
Tikopia
Marquesas Islands
Chiefdoms of the African continent
Nuer people
Turu people
Swazi people
Chiefdoms of Southeast Asia
Kachin people
Chiefdoms of the Caribbean
Chieftaincy in Panama's Historical Era
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02 Evolutionary Theory that Integrates Anthropology

evolution
Early thoughts on evolution
Evolution, Anthropology, and Racism
19th-century sociocultural evolutionism
Spencer.
Morgan, Marx, and Engels
Spencer vs. Marx: The Cornerstones of Social Evolution
20th-Century American Relativism as a Historical Science
Boaz
20th-century British structural functionalism as a historical science
Cultural Ecology and Functionalism
White and Steward
Steward's intellectual successors
Problems with ethnographically based models of social evolution
Functionalism and Neo-Archaeology
Cultural Ecology and Archaeology
Report on ancient history
Process (Caution) Archaeology and Political Economy
Political Archaeology of the Michigan School
Criticism of Postmodernism and an Expanded Processualism
Hodder and Cambridge School Archaeology
Brumfiel at a turning point
gist
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03 Chief Society and Socio-Cultural Evolution

Archaeological investigation of the chiefdom society
settlement hierarchy
economic inequality
Construction of a monument
war
Top-down approach: the leader's seizure of power
Controlling economic flows
War and Religious Ideology
Power strategy
Bottom-up approach: the power of multiples
Absence of authority
Family society
Collective action theory
Moral Economy
summation
Tributary mode of production: financing the chieftain's power apparatus
ceremonial mode of production
Perpetual mode of production
Asian mode of production
predatory production mode
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04 Ritual production method based on religious ideology

ceremonial economy
low-density society with monuments
Organizing local groups
Monumentality that symbolizes power
Monumental Landscape: Neolithic Scandinavia (4000–3300 BC)
ceremonial structures
Almhof (4000–3700 BC)
Dosherig (3900–3300 BC)
Sarup (3400–3200 BC)
Social labor as seen in Neolithic monuments
Almhove
Dosherrig
Sarup
summation
Monument Landscape: Eastern North America
foraging societies with monumental landscapes
Hopewell Society
Mississippi Society
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05 Permanent production mode and territorial defense

war
defense facilities
A mountain herb cultivating society in the Peruvian highlands
Wanka II Period Chief Society: National History
Wanka II Chieftaincy: A Regional Settlement Hierarchy and Socioeconomic Integration
livelihood economy
handicraft economy
summation
Wanka II: Village Organization
Tunanmarca
Should I stop?
Chawin
Wanka II: Settlement Structure
Wanka III: Family
Classification of household status
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06 Asian Production Patterns: Civil Landscape

Ownership of Civil Landscape: Bottleneck
A process-oriented approach to civil landscape design
Irrigation-based chiefdom societies of the Near East
The composite chiefdom of the Hawaiian Islands
Hawaiian Ethnic History
Hawaii's household economy
Hawaii's Surplus Exclusive
Archaeology of Hawaii
Social Development Trends in Hawaii
Civil engineering landscape at the time of first contact
Complementary Ideological Power in the Hawaiian Islands
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07 Predatory production mode and re-investment finance

Control of wealth flow
Chiefdoms of Viking Age and Bronze Age Scandinavia
The Viking Age: A Diachronic Overview
The Early Bronze Age in Scandinavia: Archaeological Evidence
Early Bronze Age in the South: Tea in Denmark
Early Bronze Age in the North: Tanum, Sweden
Maritime area
Model of a Scandinavian Bronze Age chieftain's confederation
Production and administration of surplus
Labor organization on farms and ships
Metal wealth
Pumpkin and slave exports
Predatory production mode from a comparative perspective
Southeast Asia
Pacific
Old World Deserts? A Grassland Chieftaincy
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08 An explanatory model for archaeological research on chiefdoms

Chieftaincy: An Unusual Opportunity for Archaeology
Four modes of production seen in a patriarchal society
ceremonial mode of production
Perpetual mode of production
Asian mode of production
predatory production mode
(Production) mode as a process model for political economy
Finale: Where did all those leaders go?
A failed state or a successful patriarchal society?
The docile leaders of modern states
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Assignment: Studying the Chieftain Society
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