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Myths of the Archaic State: IDENTITY AND AGENCY IN EARLY STATES: CASE STUDIES
Norman Yoffee
- pp 113-130
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The article was published on 2005-01-01. It has received 7 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Identity (social science) & Agency (sociology).read more
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The reaction against analogy
TL;DR: This chapter describes a series of arguments and counterarguments through which the ambivalence about analogy noted by recent commentators took definite shape.
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Ancient Mesopotamia, Portrait of a Dead Civilization
TL;DR: Oppenheim as mentioned in this paper used his intimate knowledge of long-dead languages to put together a distinctively personal picture of the Mesopotamians of some three thousand years ago, and after his death, Erica Reiner used the author's outline to complete the revisions he had begun.
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Law, Violence and Community in Classical Athens
Ian Morris,David Cohen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the law and order in the realm of theory and the rule of law in an Athenian society, and discuss the legal regulation of sexual violence.
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The Chaco Anasazi: Sociopolitical Evolution in the Prehistoric Southwest
H. Wolcott Toll,Lynne Sebastian +1 more
TL;DR: The Chaco Phenomenon as discussed by the authors is a well-known phenomenon in American political science and it has been studied extensively in the field of political science since the early 1970s.
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Crafts in the Early Isin Period: A Study of the Isin Craft Archive from the Reigns of Išbi-Erra and Šū-ilišu@@@Crafts in the Early Isin Period: A Study of the Isin Craft Archive from the Reigns of Isbi-Erra and Su-ilisu
TL;DR: The present synthese porte sur 920 tablettes which forment un ensemble tout a fait unique dans la documentation cuneiforme as discussed by the authors, i.e., signifiant un lieu and non pas la fonction d'artisan.
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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
TL;DR: In this paper, Anderson examines the creation and global spread of the 'imagined communities' of nationality and explores the processes that created these communities: the territorialisation of religious faiths, the decline of antique kingship, the interaction between capitalism and print, the development of vernacular languages-of-state, and changing conceptions of time.
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Seeing like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
Francis Fukuyama,James C. Scott +1 more