Orderly Anarchy : Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California.
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- 9780520959194
- 979.4004/97
- E78.C15 -- .B473 2015eb
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- Defining Californiay -- Jorgensen's Western North American Indians Sampley -- Regional Variationy -- Orderly Anarchyy -- 2. California in Broad Evolutionary Perspective -- The Evolutionary Fate of Hunting and Gatheringy -- The Rise and Fall of Agriculture in Western North Americay -- 3. The Evolution of Intensive Hunting and Gathering in Eastern California -- Intensification Studies in Californiay -- Ideal Free Distributiony -- Plant Intensification in Eastern Californiay -- Introduction of Bow and Arrow Technologyy -- Effects of the Bowy -- Hunter-Gatherer Group Size, Subsistence Risk, and Resource Poolingy -- The Small Group Shift in Owens Valleyy -- Alternative Routes to Plant Intensificationy -- 4. The Privatization of Food -- Pinyon Intensification in Eastern Californiay -- Family Band Organizationy -- Murdock's Theory of Social Organizationy -- The Social Organization of Great Basin Family Bandsy -- Why Pinyon?y -- The Generalization and Spread of Privatizationy -- 5. Plant Intensification West of the Sierra Crest -- Appearance of the Bow and Intensificationy -- Acorns as a Resourcey -- Archaeology of Acorn Use and Intensificationy -- Medieval Climatic Anomalyy -- 6. Patrilineal Bands, Sibs, and Tribelets -- The Patrilineal Bandy -- Privatization and the Evolution of Tribeletsy -- The Archaeology of Tribelet Developmenty -- The Role of Propertyy -- 7. Back to the Band: Bilateral Tribelets and Bands -- Demise of the Patrilineal Tribelety -- Patrilineal to Bilateral Organizationy -- Ascent of the Individualy -- Emergence of Anarchy and the Yurok-Karuk-Hupa Household Group -- Cooperation in the Presence of Anarchyy -- Discussiony -- 8. Money -- Backgroundy.
Why Money in California?y -- How California Money Might Have Evolvedy -- Money and Inequalityy -- 9. The Evolution of Orderly Anarchy -- Motivation Crowdingy -- Mind-Set in Aboriginal Californiay -- Aboriginal Orderly Anarchy in Evolutionary Perspectivey -- Quantifying Organizational Authorityy -- Quantifying Individual Autonomyy -- The Evolutionary Landscape: Resultsy -- 10. Conclusion -- Moneyy -- The Importance of Subsistence Economyy -- Orderly Anarchy More Generallyy -- Hierarchy versus Orderly Anarchy: Alternative Adaptive Strategiesy -- Orderly Anarchy Now and in the Futurey -- Glossary -- References -- Index -- Map.
Orderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations. Scholars have tended to emphasize the development of social complexity and inequality to explain this diversity. Robert L. Bettinger argues instead that "orderly anarchy," the emergence of small, autonomous groups, provided a crucial strategy in social organization. Drawing on ethnographic and archaeological data and evolutionary, economic, and anthropological theory, he shows that these small groups devised diverse solutions to environmental, technological, and social obstacles to the intensified use of resources. This book revises our understanding of how California became the most densely populated landscape in aboriginal North America.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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