Orderly Anarchy: Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California Volume 8

by Robert L. Bettinger

Orderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations. Scholars have tended to emphasize the development of social complexity and inequality to explain this diversity. Robert L. Bettinger argues instead that "orderly anarchy," the emergence of small, autonomous groups,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520283333
• ISBN13: 9780520283336
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"