@booklet {, title = {The Evolution of political systems: Sociopolitics in small- scale sedentary societies}, journal = {School of American Research advanced seminar series}, year = {1990}, note = {edited by Steadman Upham24 cm"A School of American Research book."Foreword / Jonathan Haas -- Preface / Steadman Upham -- Decoupling the processes of political evolution / Steadman Upham -- Population, permanent agriculture, and polities : unpacking the evolutionary portmanteau / Robert McC. Netting -- Selection and evolution in nonhierarchical organization / David P. Braun -- Analog or digital? : toward a generic framework for explaining the development of emergent political systems / Steadman Upham -- Maintaining economic equality in opposition to complexity : an Iroquoian case study / Bruce G. Trigger -- One path to the heights : negotiating political inequality in the Sausa of Peru / Christine A. Hastorf -- Agriculture, sedentism, and environment in the evolution of political systems / Stephen PlogPolitics and surplus flow in prehistoric communal societies / Dean J. Saitta and Arthur S. Keene -- Primitive communism and the origin of social inequality / Richard B. Lee -- The dynamics of nonhierarchical societies / Barbara Bender}, pages = {310}, publisher = {Cambridge University Press}, address = {Cambridge England ; New York}, keywords = {Marxist anthropology Congresses, Political anthropology Congresses}, isbn = {0521382521}, author = {Upham, Steadman} }