Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Introduction

Lane F. Fargher, Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza, And Cynthia L. Bedell

Section 1: Mesoamerican Cases

Chapter 1  It Was the Economy, Stupid

Stephen A. Kowalewski

Chapter 2  Alternative Pathways to Power in Formative Oaxaca

Arthur A. Joyce And Sarah B. Barber

Chapter 3  Built Space as Political Fields: Community versus Lineage Strategies in the Tequila Valleys

Christopher S. Beekman

Chapter 4  Complexity without Centralization: Corporate Power in Postclassic Jalisco

Verenice Y. Heredia Espinoza

Chapter 5  Central Precinct Plaza Replication and Corporate Groups in Mesoamerica

Barbara L. Stark

Chapter 6  Featherwork as a Commodity Complex in the Late Postclassic Mesoamerican World System

Frances F. Berdan

Chapter 7  Classic Maya Marketplaces and Exchanges: Examining Market Competition as a Factor for Understanding Commodity Distributions

Lisa J. Lecount

Section 2: Old World Cases

Chapter 8  Enduring Nations and Emergent States: Rulership, Subjecthood, and Power in Early Scandinavia

T. L. Thurston

Chapter 9  The Bakitara (Banyoro) of Uganda and Collective Action Theory

Peter Robertshaw

Chapter 10  Cognitive Codes and Collective Action at Mari and the Indus

Rita Wright

Chapter 11  “We Shape Our Buildings and Afterwards Our Buildings Shape Us”: Interpreting Architectural Evolution in a Sinhalese Village

Deborah Winslow

Section 3: Cross-Cultural Studies

Chapter 12  Network Strategy and War

Peter N. Peregrine And Carol R. Ember

Chapter 13  Framing the Rise and Variability of Past Complex Societies

Gary M. Feinman And Linda M. Nicholas

Chapter 14  Pathways to Power: Corporate and Network Strategies, Staple and Wealth Finance, and Primary and Secondary States

Tim Earle

Chapter 15  Corporate Power Strategies, Collective Action, and Control of Principals: A Cross-Cultural Perspective

Lane F. Fargher

References

List of Contributors

Index