The Transition to Statehood in the New World

Abstract

Preface Part I. Introduction: 1. Issues in the study of New World state formation Grant D. Jones and Robert R. Kautz Part II. Sociopolitical Factors in State Formation: 2. The chiefdom: precursor of the state Robert L. Carneiro 3. Class conflict and the state in the New World Jonathan Haas 4. The ecological basis for New World state formation: general and local model building Mark N. Cohen 5. The transition to statehood as seen from the mouth of a cave Richard S. MacNeish Part IV. Ideological Factors in State Formation: 6. Religion and the rise of Mesoamerican states Michael D. Coe 7. The nature and role of religious diffusion in the early stages of state formation: an example from Peruvian prehistory Richard W. Keatinge 8. Civilization as a state of mind: the cultural evolution of the Lowland Maya David A. Friedel Works cited Index.

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