Monday, December 21, 2015

Egalitarianism vs. Hierarchy, A List

Here is a list of some of the books/papers from anthropologists/archaeologists that I am aware of on the topics of egalitarianism and it’s opposite hierarchy and control by the Power Elite.  The ones marked with an * are my personal favorites and might be ones to start with, and those marked + I have, but have yet to read.  I hope they help in your quest to understand the downfall of man (and woman if she keeps following and being dominated by him). 
 
PAPERS:
 
* James Woodburn, Egalitarian Societies, Man, New Series, Vol. 17, No. 3, Sep 1982, p 431-451, https://libcom.org/files/EGALITARIAN%20SOCIETIES%20-%20James%20Woodburn.pdf
 
Richard Borsay Lee, Power and Property in Twenty-First Century Foragers, A Critical Examination, 2004, https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca/bitstream/1807/17943/1/TSpace0098.PDF
 
Christopher Boehm,Conflict and the Evolution of Social Control, Journal of Consciousness Studies, 7, No. 1-2, 2000, p. 79-101.  https://libcom.org/files/Hunter-Gatherer%20Egalitarianism%20by%20Christopher%20Boehm.pdf
 
Christopher Boehm, et. al., Egalitarian Behavior and Reverse Dominance Hierarchy, Current Anthropology, Vol 34, No 3, June 1993.  http://www.unl.edu/rhames/courses/current/readings/boehm.pdf
 
Doron Shultziner, From the Beginning of History; Paleolithic Democracy, the Emergence of Hierarchy, and the Reemergence of Political Egalitarianism.  http://www.foti-peter.hu/Schulzinger_From_the_Beginning_of_History.pdf
 
* John H. Bodley, Socioeconomic Growth, Culture Scale, and Household Well-being, A Test of the Power Elite Hypothesis, Current Anthropology, Vol 40, No 5, Dec 1999.  http://libarts.wsu.edu/anthro/pdf/Bodley%201999%20Socio-economic%20Growth.pdf
 
John H. Bodley, Anthropology and Global Environmental Change, Encyclopedia of global Environmental Change, 2002.  http://libarts.wsu.edu/anthro/pdf/Bodley%20GB801-W.pdf
 
John H. Bodley, Growth, Sustainability, and the Power of Scale, Dimensions of Sustainable Development, Vol II, Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems.  http://www.eolss.net/Sample-Chapters/C13/E1-46B-27.pdf
 
BOOKS:
 
* John Bodley, CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: TRIBES, STATES, AND THE GLOBAL SYSTEM  5th Edition ( http://www.amazon.com/Cultural-Anthropology-Tribes-States-Global/dp/0759118663 ). 
 
 
John Bodley, ANTHROPOLOGY AND CONTEMPORARY HUMAN PROBLEMS, 6TH Edition (http://www.amazon.com/Anthropology-Contemporary-Human-Problems-Bodley/dp/0759121583/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8) are also quite good.  If you interested in these, I would start with CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY, and then go to the next two if the topic really interests you. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
+ Harry Walker, UNDER A WATCHFUL EYE: SELF, POWER, AND INTIMACY IN AMAZONIA, http://www.amazon.com/Under-Watchful-Eye-Ethnographic-Subjectivity/dp/0520273605