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Titre(s) : Ten thousand years of inequality [Texte imprimé] : the archaeology of wealth differences / edited by Timothy A. Kohler and Michael E. Smith
Publication : Tucson : The University of Arizona press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (ix, 337 pages) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Collection : Amerind studies in anthropology
Lien à la collection : Amerind studies in anthropology
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Field-defining research that will set the standard for understanding inequality in
archaeological contexts"--Provided by publisher ; "Is wealth inequality a universal
feature of human societies, or did early peoples live an egalitarian existence? How
did inequality develop before the modern era? Did inequalities in wealth increase
as people settled into a way of life dominated by farming and herding? Why in general
do such disparities increase, and how recent are the high levels of wealth inequality
now experienced in many developed nations? How can archaeologists tell? Ten Thousand
Years of Inequality addresses these and other questions by presenting the first set
of consistent quantitative measurements of ancient wealth inequality. The authors
are archaeologists who have adapted the Gini index, a statistical measure of wealth
distribution often used by economists to measure contemporary inequality, and applied
it to house-size distributions over time and around the world. Clear descriptions
of methods and assumptions serve as a model for other archaeologists and historians
who want to document past patterns of wealth disparity. The chapters cover a variety
of ancient cases, including early hunter-gatherers, farmer villages, and agrarian
states and empires. The final chapter synthesizes and compares the results. Among
the new and notable outcomes, the authors report a systematic difference between higher
levels of inequality in ancient Old World socities and lower levels in their New World
counterparts. For the first time, archaeology allows humanity's deep past to provide
an account of the early manifestations of wealth inequality around the world "--Inside
jacket flap
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Kohler, Timothy A.. Éditeur scientifique
Smith, Michael Ernest (1953-....). Éditeur scientifique
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : Archaeology of wealth differences
Sujet(s) : Hominidés fossiles -- Conditions sociales
Égalité -- Aspect économique
Indice(s) Dewey :
930.1 (23e éd.) = Archéologie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780816537747. - ISBN 0816537747. - ISBN 9780816539444. - ISBN 0816539448 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45596511c
Notice n° :
FRBNF45596511
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Table des matières : Studying inequality's deep past / Michael E. Smith, Timothy A. Kohler, and Gary M.
Feinman ; Letting the Gini out of the bottle : measuring inequality archaeologically
/ Christian E. Peterson and Robert D. Drennan ; Dreaming beyond Gini : methodological
steps toward a composite archaeological inequality index / Rahul C. Oka, Nicholas
Ames, Meredith S. Chesson, Ian Kuijt, Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Vishwas D. Gogte, and
Abhijit Dandekar ; Testing hypotheses about emergent inequality (using Gini coefficients)
in a complex fisher-forager society at the Bridge River Site, British Columbia / Anna
Marie Prentiss, Thomas A. Foor, and Mary-Margaret Murphy ; In and out of chains?
: the changing social contract in the Pueblo Southwest, AD 600-1300 / Timothy A. Kohler
and Laura J. Ellyson ; Steady inequality in changing times : an examination of regional
patterns in Hohokam structure data / Matthew Pailes ; Exploring measures of inequality
in the Mississippian heartland / Alleen Betzenhauser ; Farming, inequality, and urbanization
: a comparative analysis of late prehistoric northern Mesopotamia and southwestern
Germany / Amy Bogaard, Amy Styring, Jade Whitlam, Mattia Fochesatto, and Samuel Bowles
; The trajectory of social inequality in ancient Mesopotamia / Elizabeth C. Stone
; Assessing wealth inequality in the pre-Hispanic Valley of Oaxaca : comparative implications
/ Gary M. Feinman, Ronald K. Faulseit, and Linda M. Nicholas ; Deep inequality :
summary and conclusions / Timothy A. Kohler, Michael E. Smith, Amy Bogaard, Christian
E. Peterson, Alleen Betzenhauser, Gary M. Feinman, Rahul C. Oka, Matthew Pailes, Anna
Marie Prentiss, Elizabeth C. Stone, Timothy J. Denneby, and Laura J. Ellyson
