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Orderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, a region known for its wealth of prehistoric languages, populations, and cultural adaptations. Scholars have tended to emphasize the development of social complexity and inequality to explain this diversity. Robert L. Bettinger argues instead that "orderly anarchy," the emergence of small, autonomous groups, provided a crucial strategy in social organization. Drawing on ethnographic and archaeological data and evolutionary, economic, and anthropological theory, he shows that these small groups devised diverse solutions to environmental, technological, and social obstacles to the intensified use of resources. This book revises our understanding of how California became the most densely populated landscape in aboriginal North America.

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"Orderly Anarchy is possibly the most important contribution to California anthropology since Kroeber's 1925 handbook. It is a wholly original, thought-provoking synthesis of theory, ethnography, and archaeology. If it doesn't become a singular focus of anthropological research in California for decades to come, people are not paying attention."
Terry Jones, Professor of Anthropology at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, and editor of California Archaeology "Bettinger advances a bold claim about the dynamics of California aboriginal populations, one that is novel and surprising . . . Orderly Anarchy is an important book."
Samuel Bowles, Director of Behavioral Sciences at the Santa Fe Institute, and coauthor of A Cooperative Species: Human Reciprocity and Its Evolution "Orderly Anarchy provides a new and innovative perspective on the evolutionary trajectory of California aboriginal groups by explaining how small politically autonomous groups developed, and how intensive adaptations--such as the use of bow and arrow--were adaptive peaks in their own right and not way stations on route to agriculture." William Hildebrandt, President, Far Western Anthropological Research Group

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Title Orderly Anarchy: Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California Volume 8
Author Robert L. Bettinger
Binding Hardcover
Pages 312
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher University of California Press
Date 2015-01-07
Illustrated Yes
ISBN 9780520283336 / 0520283333
Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
Dimensions 9.1 x 6.1 x 1 in (23.11 x 15.49 x 2.54 cm)
Themes
- Ethnic Orientation: Native American
- Interdisciplinary Studies: Aboriginal/Native Studies
Library of Congress subjects Indians of North America - California -
Library of Congress Catalog Number 2014032694
Dewey Decimal Code 979.400

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Robert L. Bettinger, Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis, is an authority on ethnographic and archaeological hunter-gatherers and the author of Hunter-Gatherers: Archaeological and Evolutionary Theory, Hunter-Gatherer Foraging: Five Simple Models, and many peer-reviewed book chapters and journal articles. He is also the recipient of the Society for American Archaeology Award for Excellence in Archaeological Analysis and the Society for California Archaeology M. A. Baumhoff Special Achievement Award.

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Berkeley. 2015. January 2015. University of California Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Hardcover Pictorial Boards. No Dustjacket As Issued. 9780520283336. Origins of Human Behavior and Culture, 8. 6 x 9. Illustrations: 10 maps, 9 line drawings, 73 tables. 312 pages. hardcover . keywords: Anthropology . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Orderly Anarchy delivers a provocative and innovative reexamination of the trajectory of sociopolitical evolution among Native American groups in California, explaining the region's prehistorically rich diversity of languages, populations, and environmental adaptations. Ethnographic and archaeological data and evolutionary, economic, and anthropological theory are often presented to explain the evolution of increasing social complexity and inequality. In Bettinger's account, these same data and theories are employed to argue for an evolving pattern of ‘orderly anarchy,' which featured small, inward-looking groups that, having devised a diverse range of… Read More

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