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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, provided a crucial strategy in social organization. Drawing on ethnographic and archaeological data and evolutionary, economic, and anthropological theory, he shows that these small groups devised diverse solutions to environmental, technological, and social obstacles to the intensified use of resources. This book revises our understanding of how California became the most densely populated landscape in aboriginal North America.

Indians of North America --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Civilization. --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Indians of North America -- California -- Civilization. --- Chasseurs-cueilleurs --- Economic history. --- Hunting and gathering societies --- Hunting and gathering societies. --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Social conditions. --- Histoire --- History --- Civilization --- Economic conditions --- Economic conditions. --- Social conditions --- Civilisation --- Conditions sociales --- Conditions économiques --- California --- California. --- Californie --- Conditions sociales. --- Conditions économiques. --- aboriginal california. --- aboriginal north america. --- american empire. --- american history. --- archaeology. --- california. --- conflict. --- cultural adaptation. --- diverse solutions. --- diversity. --- economic theory. --- ethnographic research. --- evolutionary theory. --- hardship. --- history. --- indigenous cultures. --- indigenous peoples. --- interdisciplinary. --- native americans. --- orderly anarchy. --- origins of human behavior and culture series. --- power struggle. --- prehistoric languages. --- realistic. --- retrospective. --- social complexity. --- social organization. --- sociopolitical evolution.

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Hunter-gatherer research has played a historically central role in the development of anthropological and evolutionary theory. Today, research in this traditional and enduringly vital field blurs lines of distinction between archaeology and ethnology, and seeks instead to develop perspectives and theories broadly applicable to anthropology and its many subdisciplines. In the groundbreaking first edition of Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological and Evolutionary Theory (1991), Robert Bettinger presented an integrative perspective on hunter-gatherer research and advanced a theoretical approach compatible with both traditional anthropological and contemporary evolutionary theories. Hunter-Gatherers remains a well-respected and much-cited text, now over 20 years since initial publication. Yet, as in other vibrant fields of study, the last two decades have seen important empirical and theoretical advances.  In this second edition of Hunter-Gatherers, co-authors Robert Bettinger, Raven Garvey, and Shannon Tushingham offer a revised and expanded version of the classic text, which includes a succinct and provocative critical synthesis of hunter-gatherer and evolutionary theory, from the Enlightenment to the present. New and expanded sections relate and react to recent developments—some of them the authors’ own—particularly in the realms of optimal foraging and cultural transmission theories.      An exceptionally informative and ambitious volume on cultural evolutionary theory, Hunter-Gatherers, second edition, is an essential addition to the libraries of anthropologists, archaeologists, and human ecologists alike.

Archaeology. --- Anthropology. --- Evolution (Biology). --- Evolutionary Biology. --- Animal evolution --- Animals --- Biological evolution --- Darwinism --- Evolutionary biology --- Evolutionary science --- Origin of species --- Biology --- Evolution --- Biological fitness --- Homoplasy --- Natural selection --- Phylogeny --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Human beings --- Hunting and gathering societies. --- Evolutionary biology. --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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