Ref ID:	29826
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Rousseau, Jérôme
Title:	Hereditary stratification in middle-range societies
Date:	2001
Source:	Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
Abstract:	Hereditary stratification is usually explained in relation to economic complexity. However, the ethnographic evidence does not readily support such explanations. Examples from Southeast Asia, Melanesia, Polynesia, and the West Coast of Canada suggest that hereditary stratification derives from the social construction of leadership.
Date Created:	10/10/2007
Volume:	7
Number:	1
Page Start:	117
Page End:	131