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JOURNAL OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL RESEARCH
卷 62, 期 3, 页码 305-319出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.3998/jar.0521004.0062.301
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Madagascar; Mesoamerica; Mesopotamia; state formation
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The emergence of states is an enduring focus for anthropologists. Identifying when and under what circumstances this political transformation has occurred in independent cases is necessary if we wish to evaluate competing ideas explaining the origins of states. This has proved difficult, however in part because the process is not easy to understand with largely archaeological evidence, but more importantly because it is not a unitary and rapid process. Study of different trajectories toward more complex political organization in Madagascar-where we have an understanding based on archaeology, ethnohistory, and ethnography-provides an illustration of the complexities of what may be termed an experimental process. In turn, viewing of earlier trajectories of state emergence in Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica as series of interrelated political experiments may also resolve long-standing problems in dealing with these developments.
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