Gledhill John, Bender Barbara, Larsen Mogens Trolle (eds.) State and Society: The Emergence and Development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization

Routledge, 1995. — 347 p. — (One World Archaeology, Volume 4). — ISBN-10 ISBN 0415122554.The traditional Eurocentric view of state formation and the rise of civilisations is vigorously challenged in this broad-ranging and innovative volume. By bringing archaeological research into contact with the work of ethno-historians and anthropologists, and by constantly challenging trends in interpretation, State and Society offers analyses of political centralization and resistance to it in a diverse range of historical and geographical contexts.