Understanding Early Large-Scale Collectives : A Global Perspective (Hardcover)

List of Figures; List of Tables; List of Contributors; Preface; Chapter 1 - The State of Archaeology: An Introduction; Chapter 2 - Institutions and Governance in Northern Iroquoian Confederacies: Implications for Contact Period Geopolitics; Chapter 3 - The Visible and Invisible Workings of?Cahokia; Chapter 4 - Networks of Power in the Chaco World: Practices, Institutions, and Ideologies of Collective Action; Chapter 5 - A Comparative Consideration of the Institutions of Governance of the Native American Polities of La Florida; Chapter 6 - The Emergence of a Large Community at Aguada Fenix and its Legacy in Southeastern Mesoamerica; Chapter 7 - Multiscalar Collectivities and Governance in Precolonial Mexico, from Neighborhoods to Confederations; Chapter 8 - Kin, Ancestors, and Commensality: A New Vision for Wari Imperialism in Middle Horizon Peru; Chapter 9 - Resilient Margins: Innovative Political Conservatism in Crete beyond the Knossian State; Chapter 10 - Reimagining Governance in the Zimbabwe Culture: Archaeological and Anthropological Insights from Ancient Mberengwa; Chapter 11 - States of Mobilities: Nomadic Institutions as the Foundations of Large-Scale Polities; Chapter 12 - Public goods, Entrainment, and Inequality: The Reconstitution of the Shang Kingdom under Wu Ding; Chapter 13 - Egalitarian Regimes: Inequality, Ideology, and Governance in the Indus Civilization of Bronze Age South Asia; Chapter 14 - Reimagining and Reengineering Political Complexity in Early Vietnam; Chapter 15 - Place Making, Fire, and the Praxis of Becoming Angkor; Chapter 16 - Islands of Ideology: Exploring Group Formation and Governance in Hawai?i; Chapter 17 - Reframing Premodern Governance: Synthesis and Prospect; Index.