| Ref ID: | 26182 |
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| Ref Type: | Book Section in a Series |
| Authors: | White, Joyce C. |
| Title: | Incorporating heterarchy into theory on socio-political development: the case from Southeast Asia |
| Date: | 1995 |
| Source: | Heterarchy and the analysis of complex societies |
| Place of Publication: | Arlington, VA |
| Publisher: | American Anthropological Association |
| Abstract: | As archeological research in mainland Southeast Asia progresses beyond the pioneering stage, the emerging data pose a number of challenges to theories of socio-political development. Attempts to apply models assuming nested, conical, hierarchical progressions derivative from the band-tribe-chiefdom-state continuum often seem inadequate and somehow unable to account for the significant socio-political dynamics that are increasingly evident from the data. This chapter proposes that a shift in modeling the regions socio-political trajectory away from a step-progression, hierarchical approach toward a dynamic, heterarchical approach will advance understanding of this regions distinctive social development and will contribute to broadening and refining theory on the formation of states and the development of social complexity. |
| Date Created: | 4/6/2001 |
| Editors: | Ehrenreich, Robert M. Crumley, Carole L. Levy, Janet E. |
| Number: | 6 |
| Page Start: | 101 |
| Page End: | 123 |
| Series Title: | Archeological papers of the American Anthropological Association |