Early State EconomicsHenri J. M. Claessen, Pieter Van De Velde The central theme of this volume is the political economy of early state societies: the ways in which the income of the central government of such systems was collected and spent. The work contains descriptive as well as narrative and commemorative essays. Contributions present data on early states as diverse as the Interlacustrine states of East Africa, the Sudanic states of West Africa, prehistoric Cahokia in the Mississippi Valley, Aztec Mexico, the Classical Maya, eighteenth-century Nepal, and Polynesian, Tahitian, and Mayan case studie |
Contents
From the Imaginary to the | 75 |
The Political Economy of the Interlacustrine States | 97 |
Myth and Reality in the | 109 |
The | 131 |
Cahokia Capital of the | 143 |
The | 177 |
Relations of Dependency in | 199 |
Early State Economics and the | 215 |
Changing Relations of | 231 |
Hawaii | 265 |
State and Economy in Polynesia | 291 |
List of Contributors | 327 |
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accumulation activities African agricultural alii American Bottom Ankole Anthropology Archaeological arii Bornu Brumfiel Buganda Cahokia Cambridge capital central century chert chiefdom chiefs communities complex cultural dominance Early Aztec economic elite élites especially exchange extraction fabric-marked pottery fish fono gifts Gorkha groups H. J. M. Claessen Hawaii Hindu household ideology Illinois important income interlacustrine islands Kathmandu king kingdom km² Kongo labor land Late Aztec leaders matai matapule Maya Maya civilization Middle Mississippian Mississippian mode of production Mosto mound Nepal Nepalese Newars obligations obsidian organization peasants political economy population prestations prestige redistribution region Regmi relations revenue rim sherds ritual River royal rule rulers Samoa segmentary Shah sherds slaves social society sociopolitical structure subsistence surplus Tahiti Tahitian Tenochtitlan Teotihuacan Tepexpan trade tribute tui tonga tulafale University Press Valley of Mexico Velde village Wolof Xaltocan