Foundations of Social Inequality

by T. Douglas Price, Gary M. Feinman (Editor)

In this authoritative volume, leading researchers offer diverse theoretical perspectives and a wide-range of information on the beginnings and nature of social inequality in past human societies. Their illuminating work investigates the role of status differentiation in traditional archaeological debates and major societal transitions. This volume features numerous case studies from the Old and New World spanning foraging societies to agricultural groups and complex states. Diachronic in view and archaeological in focus, this book will be of significant interest to archaeologists, anthropologists, and students.

307 pages, Hardcover

First published July 31, 1995

Reviews

[John · Rating 5 out of 5]

Such an amazing fucking work, full of so many rich and profound insights all throughout the book. Every contributor has something unique and valuable and interesting to say. Waaaaaaaaaay better than the 2015 version that reads like random postmodernist "everything's relative" nonsense.