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Power and Regions in Ancient States
An Egyptian and Mesoamerican Perspective

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Part of Elements in Ancient Egypt in Context

  • Date Published: March 2022
  • availability: Available
  • format: Paperback
  • isbn: 9781108816229

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  • The aim of the Element is to provide a comprehensive comparison of the basic organization of power in Mesoamerica and Egypt. How power emerged and was exercised, how it reproduced itself, how social units (from households to cities) became integrated into political formation and how these articulations of power expanded and collapsed over time. The resilience of particular areas (Oaxaca, Middle Egypt), to the point that they preserved a highly distinctive cultural personality when they were included or not within states, may provide a useful guideline about the basics of integration, negotiation and autonomy in the organization of political formations.

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    • Date Published: March 2022
    • format: Paperback
    • isbn: 9781108816229
    • length: 75 pages
    • dimensions: 228 x 152 x 6 mm
    • weight: 0.15kg
    • availability: Available
  • Table of Contents

    1. Comparing ancient societies: prehispanic Mesoamerica and the Nilotic world
    2. Regional background
    3. The economic basis: Agriculture, sedentary life and productive complexity
    4. The beginnings of complexity: Households, cities and states
    5. Polity and governance: The basis of power and leadership
    6. State power and its local implementation
    7. Monumentality and society
    8. Conclusions
    References.

  • Authors

    Gary M. Feinman, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago

    Juan Carlos Moreno García, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris

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