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Orderly Anarchy: Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California Volume 8
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Orderly Anarchy: Sociopolitical Evolution in Aboriginal California Volume 8 Hardcover - 2015

by Robert L. Bettinger

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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
  • Features Bibliography, Glossary, Illustrated, Index, Maps
  • 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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About the author

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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