Foundations of Social Inequality
In this authoritative volume, leading researchers offer diverse theoretical perspectives and a wide-range of information on the beginnings and nature of social inequality in past human societies. Their illuminating work investigates the role of status dif
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FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN ARCHAEOLOGY Series Editors:
Editorial Board:
Gary M. Feinman and T. Douglas Price
Department of Anthropology University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ofec Bar-Yosef, Harvard University. Christine Hastorf, University of California-Berkeley. Jeffrey Hantman, University of Virginia. Patty Jo Watson, Washington University. Unda Manzanllla, Unlversldad Naclonal Autonoma de Mexico. John Parkington, University of Capetown. Klavs Randsborg, University of Copenhagen. Olga Soffer, University of Rllnols • Matthew Spriggs, Australian National University. John Yellen, National Science Foundation
FOUNDAnONSOFSO~INEQUAUTY
Edited by T. Douglas Price and Gary M. Feinman
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Foundations of Social Inequality Edited by
T. DOUGLAS PRICE AND
GARY M. FEINMAN University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, Wisconsin
Springer Science+B"siness Media, LLC
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data On file
ISBN 978-1-4899-1291-6 ISBN 978-1-4899-1289-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-1-4899-1289-3
© 1995 Springer Science+Business Media New York Originally published by Plenum Press, New York in 1995 Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 1995
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To Leslie}. Price, Theron D. Price, Ester Buchholz, and Stephen E. Feinman, for the many years of love, support, and care
Contributors Kenneth M Ames • Department of Anthropology, Portland State University, Portland, Oregon 97207 Jeanne E. Arnold • Department of Anthropology and Institute of Archaeology, University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024-1510 Richard E. Blanton • Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907 Robert D. Drennan • Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260 Gary M. Feinman • Department of Anthropology, University of WisconsinMadison, Madison, WISCOnsin 53706-1393 Antonio Gilman • Department of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge, California 91330-8244 Brian Hayden • Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada V5A IS6 Stephen Plog • Department of Anthropology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22903
CONTRIBUTORS
T. Douglas Price • Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-
Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1393
Dale W Quattrin • Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260
Preface to the Series
The concept for this publication series on critical issues in archaeological thought and research originates in a growin
