Chiefdoms
Carneiro, Robert L / Grinin, Leonid E. / Korotayev, Andrey
Study of political evolution viewed in the field of social anthropology. Looks at what is seen as the first major political development in history, when previously separate villages came together in chiefdoms - a notional form of organization where political and economic power is exercised by a single person or group over communities. 10 b&w, illus.