Social Evolution & History. Volume 10, Number 1. Международный журнал

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Russian Academy of ScienceS

Institute of Oriental Studies

SOCIAL

EVOLUTION     Studies in the Evolution

& HISTORY       of Human Societies

Volume 10, Number 1 / march 2011

Chiefdoms: Theories, problems, and comparisons

Special Issue

Contents

Articles:

Editors' Preface     2

Henri J. M. Claessen

On Chiefs and Chiefdoms     5

Timothy Earle

Chiefs, Chieftaincies, Chiefdoms, and Chiefly Confederacies:

Power in the Evolution of Political Systems     27

Peter Skalník

Chiefdom at War with Chiefless People

while the State Looks on     55

Ludomir Lozny

The Emergence of Multi-agent Polities of the Northern Central European Plains in the Early Middle Ages, 600–900 CE     122

Robert D. Drennan, Bryan K. Hanks, and Christian E. Peterson

The Comparative Study of Chiefly

Communities in the Eurasian Steppe Region     149

Nikolay N. Kradin

Heterarchy and Hierarchy among

the Ancient Mongolian Nomads     187

D. Blair Gibson

Chiefdom Confederacies and State Origins     215

Leonid Grinin

Complex Chiefdom: Precursor of the State or Its Analogue?     234

Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev

Chiefdoms and Their Analogues: Alternatives of Social Evolution

at the Societal Level of Medium Cultural Complexity     276

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