Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Introduction - Lane F. Fargher, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, and Cynthia L. Bedell
Section 1: Mesoamerican Cases
Chapter 1. It Was the Economy, Stupid - Stephen A. Kowalewski
Chapter 2. Alternative Pathways to Power in Formative Oaxaca - Arthur A. Joyce and Sarah B. Barber
Chapter 3. Built Space as Political Fields: Community versus Lineage Strategies in the Tequila Valleys - Christopher S. Beekman
Chapter 4. Complexity without Centralization: Corporate Power in Postclassic Jalisco - Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza
Chapter 5. Central Precinct Plaza Replication and Corporate Groups in Mesoamerica - Barbara L. Stark
Chapter 6. Featherwork as a Commodity Complex in the Late Postclassic Mesoamerican World System - Frances F. Berdan
Chapter 7. Classic Maya Marketplaces and Exchanges: Examining Market Competition as a Factor for Understanding Commodity Distributions - Lisa J. LeCount
Section 2: Old World Cases
Chapter 8. Enduring Nations and Emergent States: Rulership, Subjecthood, and Power in Early Scandinavia - T. L. Thurston
Chapter 9. The Bakitara (Banyoro) of Uganda and Collective Action Theory - Peter Robertshaw
Chapter 10. Cognitive Codes and Collective Action at Mari and the Indus - Rita Wright
Chapter 11. “We Shape Our Buildings and Afterwards Our Buildings Shape Us”: Interpreting Architectural Evolution in a Sinhalese Village - Deborah Winslow
Section 3: Cross-Cultural Studies
Chapter 12. Network Strategy and War - Peter N. Peregrine and Carol R. Ember
Chapter 13. Framing the Rise and Variability of Past Complex Societies - Gary M. Feinman and Linda M. Nicholas
Chapter 14. Pathways to Power: Corporate and Network Strategies, Staple and Wealth Finance, and Primary and Secondary States - Tim Earle
Chapter 15. Corporate Power Strategies, Collective Action, and Control of Principals: A Cross-Cultural Perspective - Lane F. Fargher
References
List of Contributors
Index