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HISTORICKÁ SOCIOLOGIE, Vol 16 No 1 (2024), 105–111
Neoevolucionistický pohled na vznik státu a hierarchií
[A Neoevolutionist View on the Origin of the State and Hierarchies]
Marek Německý
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14712/23363525.2024.8
published online: 11. 06. 2024
abstract
This review essay analyses the work of Kent Flannery and Joyce Marcus [2012], presenting it as an ambitious new attempt to apply neo-evolutionist models to the processes of the emergence of hierarchies and states. The work is compared with the classic works of Elman Service [1962] and Morton Fried [1967]. Unlike other authors, it draws more on Fried’s tradition of dividing societies into egalitarian, rank, stratified and states. In particular, the concept of generations of states in a given region is innovative, offering different models for understanding time within a macrosocial analysis. The results of the analysis of the book are expressed in two tables, which are appended to the text.
keywords: ancient state; chiefdom; hierarchy; sociopolitical typology; political evolution
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