27 Limits: Beginning and End of the Early State

Chapters in this book

1. I-IV I
2. Preface V
3. List of Contributors IX
4. Contents XI
5. PART ONE: Thesis
6. 1 The Early State: Theories and Hypotheses 1
7. 2 State Origins: A Reappraisal 31
8. 3 Some Theoretical Problems of the Study of the Early State 77
9. 4 The Origin of the State Among the Nomads of Asia 93
10. PART TWO: Antithesis
11. 5 Angkor: Society and State 109
12. 6 Ankole: Pastoral Hegemony 131
13. 7 Axum 151
14. 8 The Legitimation of the Aztec State 169
15. 9 China 191
16. 10 The Early State in Ancient Egypt 213
17. 11 The Early State in France 235
18. 12 Early States in Ancient Georgia 257
19. 13 The Early State in Hawaii 269
20. 14 Early State of the Incas 289
21. 15 The Galla State of Jimma Abba Jifar 321
22. 16 The Kachari State: The Character of Early State-like Formations in the Hill Districts of Northeast India 339
23. 17 The Kuba State 359
24. 18 The Mauryan State 381
25. 19 The Early State in Norway 403
26. 20 The Early State Among the Scythians 425
27. 21 Early State in Tahiti 441
28. 22 Early States in the Voltaic Basin 469
29. 23 Yoruba City-States (at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century) 495
30. 24 Zande 511
31. PART THREE: Synthesis
32. 25 The Early State: A Structural Approach 531
33. 26 The Early State as a Process 597
34. 27 Limits: Beginning and End of the Early State 619
35. 28 The Early State: Models and Reality 637
36. Biographical Notes 651
37. Index of Names 657
38. Index of Subjects 667