Archaeology of the Origin of the State : The Theories
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199557845
ISBN-13
9780199557844
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 30th, 2011
Print length
320 Pages
Weight
516 grams
Dimensions
22.40 x 16.20 x 2.30 cms
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A critically acute summary of the main theories about the 'State', from Greek antiquity to the present. The authors highlight the importance of archaeology to our knowledge of how the first States were formed and how they functioned. They also ask what conditions of social production led to the State arising as the self-interested regulator of social relationships.
This book, newly translated from the original Spanish, first offers a summary of the main theories about what we today call the `State'', a category that draws together various interests in the research into the past of human societies and, at the same time, inspires passionate political and ideological debate. The authors review political philosophies from Greek antiquity to contemporary evolutionism. They then examine how the State has been viewed and studied within archaeology in the twentieth century, and offer an alternative approach based upon historical materialism. Their argument that this method can be profitably used to study the archaeological record is a sophisticated and creative contribution to current theory, and will inspire debate about its implications for our understanding of human history.
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