The Evolution of Simplicity Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. By James C. Scott. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998. 445 pp.
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The emptying out of symbolic capital is seen across multiple domains of material culture from Naqada III into the First Dynasty, in a process termed the evolution of simplicity.
“This is seen across multiple domains of material culture from Naqada III into the First Dynasty (Stevenson 2011) in a process that has been termed the ''evolution of simplicity'' (Wengrow 2006, pp. 151-175;Yoffee 2001).”
From The Egyptian Predynastic and State Formation (2016) · cites this paper as Yoffee 2001
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- Authors
- Yoffee, N.
- Affiliations
- University of Michigan (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yoffee, Norman
- ORCID
- Yoffee, Norman
- Venue
- Current Anthropology
- Publisher
- University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2001-12
- Volume
- 42
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 767-769
- ISSN
- 0011-3204 (ISSN-L)
- 1537-5382
- OpenAlex
- W2570935146
- Cited by
- 33
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2020: 14 · 2019: 12 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 2 · 2014: 1
- Type
- book review
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Current Anthropology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture
- Social Sciences › General Social Sciences › Social Science and Policy Research
- Keywords
- state formation, state failure
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