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The Creation of Inequality: How Our Prehistoric Ancestors Set the Stage for Monarchy, Slavery, and EmpireBook

by Joyce Marcus & Kent Flannery

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Joseph Henrich
Professor of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and author of The Secret of Our Success and The WEIRDest People in the World.
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But Flannery and Marcus show, in my view persuasively, that you can use ethnographic cases to enrich your understanding of the archaeological record, and then look at how things like religion, the organisation of clans, and a bunch of different social factors allow some societies to scale up and get stratification, whereas other societies seem impeded by their social structure from scaling up. They don't end up being larger and more integrated, but they also don't end up with high degrees of social inequality.

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