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Social Sciences - Archaeology | | French term or phrase: contestation des hiérarchies | Cette contestation des hiérarchies pourrait expliquer que le stade des chefferies n'est jamais dépassé.
Bronze Age 'politics' |
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| | These internal power struggles may explain why it is that | Explanation:
[what ever it was] never developed beyond the stage of petty chiefdoms.
I.e., the energies of the society were so consumed by fratricidal (figuratively or literally) power stuggles that power was never suffiently concentrated to allow for a larger political unit to emerge, and nothing larger than a "chiefdom" ("petty" emphasises the lowly status of the term) could be formed.
Similar occurances can be seen in various periods : the Greek city-states (*relatively* speaking, "petty chiefdoms") never gave up their fratricidal quarrelling and became anything like a unified "state" until the time of the conquest by Alexander.
And the "Merovingian" period (6th-8th centuries) in France was marked by endless fratricidal (literally) power struggles which kept the "kingdom" --which was a kingdom in name only-- from becomming a truely united political unit until the comming of the Carolingian dynasty and, especially, of Charlemage.
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Note added at 2003-07-21 15:31:30 (GMT)
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Should be : \"...internal power stuggles *among the elites*...\"
Or, whoever it was that was engaged in these \"contestations\".
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4 mins confidence:   peer agreement (net): +2 My version
Explanation:
This contestation of the hierarchies might explain why the society never progressed beyond the level of chiefdoms.
The Celtic Chiefdom
The Celtic Chiefdom, All things belonged to the brave who carried
justice on the points of their swords. This page is devoted to ...
Description: Categorized links including linguistics, art, music and folklore.
Category: Society > Ethnicity > Celtic > Guides and Directories
www.geocities.com/Athens/Library/9107/ - 13k - Cached - Similar pages
The Hinterland of a Polynesian Chiefdom
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Category: Regional > North America > ... > Molokai > Arts and Entertainment
www.otago.ac.nz/Anthropology/Pacific/ hinterland/hinterframe.html
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4 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): -1 This contention for mastery might explain why rural fiefdoms still exist
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18 mins confidence: peer agreement (net): +2
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