The Evolution of Leadership: Transitions in Decision Making from Small-Scale to Middle-Range Societies (Advanced Seminar) (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series) - Softcover

 
9781934691137: The Evolution of Leadership: Transitions in Decision Making from Small-Scale to Middle-Range Societies (Advanced Seminar) (School for Advanced Research Advanced Seminar Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1934691135 ISBN 13: 9781934691137
Publisher: SAR Press, 2010

Synopsis

Leaders make decisions that have significant impacts on the lives of others. They have the ability to influence events and impact the evolutionary trajectories of societies. Leaders exist in all societies, ranging from smaller-scale heads of households to larger-scale elected governing bodies to dictators with vast coercive powers at their disposal. Today, all of us are familiar with and see (and feel) the influence of leaders. Given that leaders and leadership are so influential on human social behavior, and yet are variably represented among different societies in the past and present, generations of scholars have examined these social phenomena from a variety of humanistic and scientific perspectives. This book, the product of an advanced seminar at the School for Advanced Research (SAR), brings together the perspectives of cultural anthropologists and archaeologists to explore why and how leadership emerges and variously becomes institutionalized among disparate small-scale and middle-range human societies.

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About the Author

Kevin J. Vaughn is the dean of UCR Extension and is an associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. He is the author of The Ancient Andean Village: Marcaya in Prehispanic Nasca.

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Publisher
SAR Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1934691135
ISBN 13 
9781934691137
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
366
Editor
Vaughn Kevin J.