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Heterarchy and the Analysis of Complex Societies
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Archeologists' dissatisfaction with Service's band‐tribe‐chiefdom‐state model of sociocultural complexity has resulted in the epistemological reexamination of hierarchy, the exploration of heterarchy, and the historical and contextual flux between them. This calculus of power relations within and between polities aids understanding of how power shifts occur and under what conditions various power distributions constitute stable and unstable configurations. Power relations, while predicated on systems of values, leave physical evidence when their importance is ranked and reranked by individuals, groups, and organizations as conditions change. The hierarchy‐heterarchy relation offers a new approach to the study of agency, conflict, and cooperation.
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“That power can be structured through multiple fields of action was foregrounded by the introduction of the term ''heterarchy'' into archaeological usage (Crumley 1995).”
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“La mayoría de los modelos que pretenden explicar las formas de relación entre grupos humanos en la escala regional se sirve de teorías que se asientan en estructuras jerárquicas, asumiéndose que la jerarquía sería la única forma posible en la que pueden estar organizadas las estructuras sociales (Crumley 1995: 2).”
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- Authors
- Crumley, C. L.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- Corresponding author
- Crumley, Carole L.
- ORCID
- Crumley, Carole L.
- Venue
- Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 1995-01
- Volume
- 6
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 1-5
- ISSN
- 1551-823X (ISSN-L)
- 1551-8248
- OpenAlex
- W2016682655
- Cited by
- 958
- References
- 25
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 37 · 2023: 44 · 2022: 74 · 2021: 49 · 2020: 130 · 2019: 74 · 2018: 35 · 2017: 66 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 25 · 2014: 37 · 2013: 23 · 2012: 33
- FWCI
- 65.83
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Archeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Archeology (arts and humanities) › Archaeological and Geological Studies
- Social Sciences › Cultural Studies › Language and cultural evolution
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Anthropological Studies and Insights
- Keywords
- heterarchy, hierarchy, sociocultural complexity, power relations, polity, power distribution, agency, conflict, cooperation, epistemology of archaeology
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