Origins of the State: The Anthropology of Political EvolutionRonald Cohen, Elman Rogers Service Introduction / Ronald Cohen -- Classical and modern theories of the origins of government / Elman R. Service -- The state, the chicken, and the egg : or, what came first? / Morton H. Fried -- Toward an explanation of the origin of the state / Henry T. Wright -- Irrigation, conflict, and politics : a Mexican case / Eva Hunt and Robert C. Hunt -- The proto-state in Iranian Baluchistan / Philip Carl Salzman -- State foundations : a controlled comparison / Ronald Cohen -- Secondary state formation : an explanatory model / Barbara J. Price -- Aristotle's concept of political structure and the state / Wolfgang Weissleder -- Political expansion as an expression of the principle of competitive exclusion / Robert L. Carneiro |
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Introduction | 1 |
Problems of definition 2 Theories of state formation 5 Some concluding | 14 |
Conflict theories 21 Integrative theories 27 Conclusion | 31 |
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