Social Evolution & History. Volume 11, Number 2 / September 2012 Issue: 2012/2

Origin of the Early State: A Reconsideration
      10th Anniversary Issue

Article:

• Editorial Preface  
• Carneiro, Robert L.
  The Circumscription Theory: A Clarification, Amplification, and Reformulation 

Comments:

• Barry III, Herbert
  Political Integration without Warfare  
• Carmack, Robert M.
  Circumscription Theory: A Clarification, Amplification, and Reformulation by Robert L. Carneiro  
• Claessen, Henri J. M.
  Reconsideration of a Reformulation  
• Feinman, Gary M.
  Circumscription Theory and Political Change: From Determinism to Mechanisms and Parameters  
• Ganzha, Alexander; Shinakov, Evgeniy A.
  Was the War Caused by the Circumscription the Only Way to the State?  
• Gibson, D. Blair
  Carneiro's Social Circumscription Theory: Necessary but not Sufficient  
• Guidi, Alessandro
  Carneiro and the Archaeology of War: A Comment from a Prehistorian  
• Hakami, Khaled
  Questions to Spencer's Bulldog  
• Kowalewski, Stephen A.
  Two Metaphors and a Myth  
• Kurtz, Donald V.
  State Origins: Clarifications and Reformulations  
• Lozny, Ludomir L.
  How Social Complexity Happens: Causal-History Explanation  
• Marcus, Joyce
  The Formation of Political Hierarchies and the Loss of Autonomy  
• van Meijl, Toon
  Ideology and the Rise of Early States  
• Peregrine, Peter N.
  Population Pressure Problems  
• Rozov, Nikolai
  The Circumscription Theory by Robert Carneiro in the Socio-Ontological and Macrosociological Context  
• Small, David B.
  We Know too Much, We Know too Little  
• Sneath, David
  Population, Coercion and State Formation. Some Comments on Robert Carneiro's Reformulation of Circumscription Theory  
• Spier, Fred
  Religion and the Revised Circumscription Theory  
• Testart, Alain
  Comment on R. L. Carneiro's Article on the Origin of the State: ‘The Circumscription Theory: A Clarification, Amplification, and Re-formulation’  
• van der Vliet, Edward C. L.
  State Formation: Not by War Alone  
• Wason, Paul
  Process and Regularity in Human Affairs: A Comment on Carneiro  
• Jianping Yi
  Circumscription Theory and the Political Evolution in Prehistoric China  

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• Carneiro, Robert L.
  Answers to Critiques  
• Grinin, Leonid; Korotayev, Andrey
  Emergence of Chiefdoms and States: A Spectrum of Opinions  
• Congratulations to the Tenth Anniversary of the Journal