Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface to the Second Edition vii
3. Contents ix
4. Tables and Figures xi
5. 1 Introduction 1
6. Part I: The Family-Level Group
7. 2 The Family Level 41
8. 3 Family-Level Foragers 54
9. 4 Families with Domestication 90
10. Part II: The Local Group
11. 5 The Local Group 123
12. 6 The Family and the Village 141
13. 7 The Village and the Clan 171
14. 8 The Corporate Group and the Big Man Collectivity 203
15. Part III: The Regional Polity
16. 9 The Regional Polity 245
17. 10 The Simple Chiefdom 265
18. 11 The Complex Chiefdom 281
19. 12 The Archaic State 304
20. 13 The Peasant Economy in the Agrarian State 330
21. 14 The Evolution of Global Society 367
22. Bibliography 393
23. Index 425