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- catalog abstract ""This volume delineates a new comparative approach to civilizations centered around three terms, order, legitimacy, and wealth. This approach was initially developed in 1992 in an influential paper by John Baines and Norman Yoffee, comparing and contrasting the nature of social and political power in Egypt and Mesopotamia, and it was the first analysis of the impact of wealth and high culture on the development of states. Following an introductory essay on the concept of "civilization" by the editors, contributors to the present book apply the Baines/Yoffee model to a range of ancient states around the world, providing documentary and archaeological evidence on the production and uses of "high culture", literature and monumental architecture. There are chapters on Mesoamerica, the Andes, the Indus Valley, the Han Dynasty of China, and Greece during the Roman Empire, while others expand on the original Egypt-Mesopotamia comparison."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12016113.
- catalog contributor b12016114.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""This volume delineates a new comparative approach to civilizations centered around three terms, order, legitimacy, and wealth. This approach was initially developed in 1992 in an influential paper by John Baines and Norman Yoffee, comparing and contrasting the nature of social and political power in Egypt and Mesopotamia, and it was the first analysis of the impact of wealth and high culture on the development of states. Following an introductory essay on the concept of "civilization" by the editors, contributors to the present book apply the Baines/Yoffee model to a range of ancient states around the world, providing documentary and archaeological evidence on the production and uses of "high culture", literature and monumental architecture. There are chapters on Mesoamerica, the Andes, the Indus Valley, the Han Dynasty of China, and Greece during the Roman Empire, while others expand on the original Egypt-Mesopotamia comparison."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 140-158) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction: ideology, wealth, and the comparative study of "civilizations" / Mary Van Buren, Janet Richards -- Order, legitimacy, and wealth: setting the terms / John Baines, Norman Yoffe -- Society and individual in early Egypt / David O'Conner -- Modified order, responsive legitimacy, redistributed wealth: Egypt 2260-1650 BC / Janet Richards -- Law courts and the mediation of social conflict in ancient Mesopotamia / Norman Yoffee -- High culture, Mesoamerican civilization, and the classic Maya tradition / Rosemary A. Joyce -- Political fragmentation and ideological continuity in the Andean highlands / Mary Van Buren -- Wealth and socioeconomic hierarchies of the Indus Valley civilization / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer -- Classical order, alternative orders, and the uses of nostalgia / Susan E. Alcock -- Order, legitimacy, and wealth in ancient China / Bennet Bronson -- The politics of high culture: issues of worth and rank / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 163 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521772125 (hb)".
- catalog identifier "0521776716 (pb)".
- catalog isPartOf "New directions in archaeology".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "930 21".
- catalog subject "CB311 .O734 2000".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Ancient.".
- catalog subject "Wealth.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: ideology, wealth, and the comparative study of "civilizations" / Mary Van Buren, Janet Richards -- Order, legitimacy, and wealth: setting the terms / John Baines, Norman Yoffe -- Society and individual in early Egypt / David O'Conner -- Modified order, responsive legitimacy, redistributed wealth: Egypt 2260-1650 BC / Janet Richards -- Law courts and the mediation of social conflict in ancient Mesopotamia / Norman Yoffee -- High culture, Mesoamerican civilization, and the classic Maya tradition / Rosemary A. Joyce -- Political fragmentation and ideological continuity in the Andean highlands / Mary Van Buren -- Wealth and socioeconomic hierarchies of the Indus Valley civilization / Jonathan Mark Kenoyer -- Classical order, alternative orders, and the uses of nostalgia / Susan E. Alcock -- Order, legitimacy, and wealth in ancient China / Bennet Bronson -- The politics of high culture: issues of worth and rank / Elizabeth M. Brumfiel.".
- catalog title "Order, legitimacy, and wealth in ancient states / edited by Janet Richards and Mary Van Buren.".
- catalog type "text".