Political Authority (Other Keyword)

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The Fortress Refigured: Authority and Community in the South Caucasus (ca. 1500-300 BC) (2015)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Lori Khatchadourian. Ian Lindsay.

In many world regions, the mountain fortress has long stood as little more than a practical instrument of institutionalized force. Such reductionism obscures more than it reveals, for fortresses are equally salient as projects of communal labor, mediators in the making of subjects and authorities, and objects of contestation, curation, and commemoration. In the South Caucasus, fortresses played a crucial role in the reproduction of polities from the Late Bronze Age to the mid-first millennium...


Political Authority and the Structure of Kinship in Aboriginal Samoa (1962)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Melvin Ember.

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Some Observations on Kinship and Political Authority in Samoa (1964)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Derek Freeman.

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