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Explore the growth in complexity of human societies with this ambitious work from Stanford University Press. The Evolution of Human Societies: From Foraging Group to Agrarian State, Second Edition, provides an original thesis supported by a representative body of ethnographic data. The authors explain the causes, mechanisms, and patterns of cultural evolution through a coherent theory of political economy, defined as the mobilization and exchange of goods and services between families. By examining the interconnected processes of technological change and population growth, this book identifies the motors of social change. Readers will learn how these factors drive three related processes: intensification, integration, and social complexity. This second edition is a deep look into how human groups transition from simple foraging units to organized agrarian states.

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This second edition by Stanford University Press provides an original thesis on the growth of social complexity.

The text uses a representative body of ethnographic data to explain the patterns of cultural evolution.

Learn about the theory of political economy regarding the exchange of goods and services between families.

The book examines how technological change and population growth act as the motor of social change.

Understand the three related processes of intensification, integration, and social complexity in human history.

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Release Date
01 December 2000
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02 February 2007

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