Chiefdoms and Their Analogues: Alternatives of Social Evolution at the Societal Level of Medium Cultural ComplexityстатьяИсследовательская статьяНаучно-популярная статья
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Аннотация:The general process of the growth of sociocultural complexity was multidimensional and multilinear. That is why the evolu-tionary phase of medium-complex societies (where the chiefdoms are most often observed) was represented by numerous types of societies.
The article is devoted to the analysis of chiefdom ana-logues, or various evolutionary alternatives to the chiefdom: poleis, autonomous towns and complex village communities, cast-clan systems, non-hierarchically organized territorial groups and federations of villages, certain types of tribal systems, and so on. All chiefdom analogues' forms can be subdivided into a few types: monosettlement analogues (with the majority of the population concentrated in a single central settlement); horizontally integrated polysettlement analogues; and corporate analogues. The notion of chiefdom analogues which we put forward will advance the theoretical analysis of the cultural-political variations among medium-complex socie-ties where chiefdoms are bound to occupy one of the main positions.