Social Evolution & History. Volume 11, Number 2. Международный журнал

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Russian Academy of ScienceS

INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL STUDIES

Eurasian Center for Big History & System Forecasting

SOCIAL

EVOLUTION       Studies in the Evolution

& HISTORY         of Human Societies

Volume 11, Number 2 / September 2012

Origin of the Early State: A Reconsideration

Special Issue

Contents

Editorial Preface     3

Article:

Robert L. Carneiro

The Circumscription Theory: A Clarification, Amplification, and Reformulation    5

Comments:

Herbert Barry III

Political Integration without Warfare     31

Robert M. Carmack

Circumscription Theory: A Clarification, Amplification, and Reformulation by Robert L. Carneiro     34

Henri J. M. Claessen

Reconsideration of a Reformulation     36

Gary M. Feinman

Circumscription Theory and Political Change: From Determinism to Mechanisms and Parameters     44

Alexander Ganzha and Evgeny Shinakov

Was the War Caused by the Circumscription the Only Way to the State?     48

D. Blair Gibson

Carneiro's Social Circumscription Theory: Necessary but not Sufficient     51

Alessandro Guidi

Carneiro and the Archaeology of War: A Comment from a Prehistorian     56

Khaled Hakami

Questions to Spencer's Bulldog     58

Stephen A. Kowalewski

Two Metaphors and a Myth     63

Donald v. Kurtz

State Origins: Clarifications and Reformulations     67

Ludomir R. Lozny

How Social Complexity Happens: Causal-History Explanation     70

Joyce Marcus

The Formation of Political Hierarchies and the Loss of Autonomy     74

Toon van Meijl

Ideology and the Rise of Early States     79

Peter N. Peregrine

Population Pressure Problems     83

Nikolai Rozov

The Circumscription Theory by Robert Carneiro in the Socio-Ontological and Macrosociological Context     86

David B. Small

We Know too Much, We Know too Little     92

David Sneath

Population, Coercion and State Formation. Some Comments on Robert Carneiro's reformulation of Circumscription Theory     96

Fred Spier

1Religion and the Revised Circumscription Theory     101

Alain Testart

Comment on R. L. Carneiro's article on the Origin of the State: ‘The Circumscription Theory: A Clarification, Amplification, and Re-formulation’     105

Edward Ch. L. van der Vliet

State Formation: Not by War Alone     110

Paul Wason

Process and Regularity in Human Affairs: A Comment on Carneiro     115

Jianping Yi

Circumscription Theory and the Political Evolution in Prehistoric China     120

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Robert L. Carneiro

Answers to Critiques     131

Leonid E. Grinin and Andrey V. Korotayev

Emergence of chiefdoms and states: A spectrum of opinions     191

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Congratulations to the Tenth Anniversary of the Journal     205

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