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Chiefdoms: From Archaic Polities to Modern Terrorist Organizations
[Sammelwerksbeitrag]
Abstract The chiefdom concept is one of the most productive in social anthropology and
political evolution. It helps to deeply understand the process of complication of
society's structure and the development path from stateless society to early
states. However, even when states spread everywhere, chiefdo... mehr
The chiefdom concept is one of the most productive in social anthropology and
political evolution. It helps to deeply understand the process of complication of
society's structure and the development path from stateless society to early
states. However, even when states spread everywhere, chiefdoms still remained
political and administrative actors. At present one can find some features of
chiefdoms in developing countries (e.g., in some regions of Africa) and in different
kinds of organizations especially in illegal and terrorist ones. Thus, using
chiefdom theories one can clarify a few basics of such kind of organization
as well. Therefore, it makes sense to show how such chiefdom-like structures
preserve and develop the features of ancient polities within them.
Thus, in the modern world, along with states, one can find numerous alternative
social and political organizations, which, to a greater or lesser extent, have
some features that are similar to certain ancient polities. How and why is this
possible? We hope that this paper will shed some light on this question. However,
it requires and deserves further study.... weniger
Klassifikation
Geschichte
Freie Schlagwörter
chiefdom; polity; pre-state polities; chieftaincies; complex polities; stateless societies; Al-Qaeda; ISIL; societal complexity
Titel Sammelwerk, Herausgeber- oder Konferenzband
Evolution: Evolutionary Trends, Aspects, and Patterns
Herausgeber
Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2019
Verlag
Uchitel Publishing House
Erscheinungsort
Volgograd
Seitenangabe
S. 124-133
ISBN
978-5-7057-5560-8
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)