%0 Generic %D 1990 %T The Evolution of political systems: Sociopolitics in small- scale sedentary societies %A Upham, Steadman %C Cambridge England ; New York %I Cambridge University Press %K Marxist anthropology Congresses %K Political anthropology Congresses %L mainmstaxSHLDS-GEN GN492 %P 310 %Z 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 %@ 0521382521