Incorporating Heterarchy into Theory on Socio-political Development: The Case from Southeast Asia
@inproceedings{White2008IncorporatingHI, title={Incorporating Heterarchy into Theory on Socio-political Development: The Case from Southeast Asia}, author={J. White}, year={2008} }
As archeological research in mainland Southeast Asia progresses beyond the pioneering stage, the emerging data pose a number of challenges to theories of socio-political development. Attempts to apply models assuming nested, conical, hierarchical progressions derivative from the band-tribe-chiefdom-state continuum often seem inadequate and somehow unable to account for the significant socio-political dynamics that are increasingly evident from the data. This chapter proposes that a shift in… CONTINUE READING
56 Citations
Hidden agendas : testing models of the social and political organisation of the Indus Valley tradition
- Political Science
- 2008
Historical Origins of the Present Crisis in the Philippines: The Consequences of a Late Institutional Start
- Political Science
- 2007
Social Variation and Dynamics in Metal Age and Protohistoric Central Thailand: A Regional Perspective
- History
- 2010
- 13
- PDF
Social organisation and the rise of civilisation in the Mun River Valley, Thailand
- Geography
- 2013
- Highly Influenced
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 44 REFERENCES
Ecology, Culture, Social Organization, and State Formation in Southeast Asia [and Comments and Reply]
- Sociology
- Current Anthropology
- 1976
- 24
From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands
- Sociology, Political Science
- 1991
- 45