Why would some villages give up their autonomy to form chiefdoms? Use your additional readings to compare and contrast two distinct scholarly positions on the emergence of chiefdoms from autonomous village societies

Why would some villages give up their autonomy to form chiefdoms? Use your additional readings to compare and contrast two distinct scholarly positions on the emergence of chiefdoms from autonomous village societies

Anth101, Foundations of Social Complexity, Fall, 2016. Take-Home mid-term essay

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Use course readings plus at least Four additional source(s) to support your argument. Sources should be peer-reviewed articles from a scholarly journal or book. We will talk about sources in class and sections. Cite all sources for data, opinion, or direct quotation, using page numbers. You may use “American Antiquity” parenthetical citation style (Wright 1986:334), or any standard style of citation. All papers must be original, individual work for this course. Text must be 12 point, double spaced, with 1 inch margins, with no more than six (6) pages of text, plus a list of references cited.

Why would some villages give up their autonomy to form chiefdoms? Use your additional readings to compare and contrast two distinct scholarly positions on the emergence of chiefdoms from autonomous village societies. Keep in mind differing definitions of chiefdoms, as well as the relative importance of different “prime movers” and/or other causative factors. Which model for the evolution of chiefdoms do you find the most compelling? Use and cite specific archaeological or ethnographic examples and authors to support your arguments.

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