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Politics and Power. / Collis, John; Karl, Raimund.
The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. ed. / Peter S. Wells; Katharina Rebay-Salisbury; Colin Haselgrove. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.

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Collis, J & Karl, R 2018, Politics and Power. in PS Wells, K Rebay-Salisbury & C Haselgrove (eds), The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford University Press, Oxford. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696826.013.11

APA

Collis, J., & Karl, R. (2018). Politics and Power. In P. S. Wells, K. Rebay-Salisbury, & C. Haselgrove (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696826.013.11

CBE

Collis J, Karl R. 2018. Politics and Power. Wells PS, Rebay-Salisbury K, Haselgrove C, editors. In The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696826.013.11

MLA

Collis, John and Raimund Karl "Politics and Power"., Wells, Peter S. Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina Haselgrove, Colin (editors). The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696826.013.11

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Collis J, Karl R. Politics and Power. In Wells PS, Rebay-Salisbury K, Haselgrove C, editors, The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2018 doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696826.013.11

Author

Collis, John ; Karl, Raimund. / Politics and Power. The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age. editor / Peter S. Wells ; Katharina Rebay-Salisbury ; Colin Haselgrove. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

RIS

TY - CHAP

T1 - Politics and Power

AU - Collis, John

AU - Karl, Raimund

PY - 2018/3/1

Y1 - 2018/3/1

N2 - Reconstruction of Iron Age social and political structures relies initially on written sources, but classical texts are both biased in how they describe institutions, especially among other peoples, and patchy in time and space. From the mid-first millennium BC, we get details on how polities such as Athens, Sparta, and Rome functioned, but these are not representative of other Greek and Italian peoples, let alone non-Mediterranean societies. The second source of information is archaeology, especially burials, but also settlements. The chapter discusses social and political development using both a core–periphery (Mediterranean societies were more complex than those in the north) and an evolutionary model, though not one which necessarily assumes increasing complexity. The varying nature of individual power bases is also considered. A major area of contention (including between the authors) is the extent to which we can back-project documented societies into the past or into other contexts.

AB - Reconstruction of Iron Age social and political structures relies initially on written sources, but classical texts are both biased in how they describe institutions, especially among other peoples, and patchy in time and space. From the mid-first millennium BC, we get details on how polities such as Athens, Sparta, and Rome functioned, but these are not representative of other Greek and Italian peoples, let alone non-Mediterranean societies. The second source of information is archaeology, especially burials, but also settlements. The chapter discusses social and political development using both a core–periphery (Mediterranean societies were more complex than those in the north) and an evolutionary model, though not one which necessarily assumes increasing complexity. The varying nature of individual power bases is also considered. A major area of contention (including between the authors) is the extent to which we can back-project documented societies into the past or into other contexts.

KW - social differentiation

KW - class

KW - hierarchy

KW - wealth

KW - ownership

KW - power

KW - complexity

KW - Iron Age

KW - Europe

KW - Archaeology

U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696826.013.11

DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199696826.013.11

M3 - Chapter

BT - The Oxford Handbook of the European Iron Age

A2 - Wells, Peter S.

A2 - Rebay-Salisbury, Katharina

A2 - Haselgrove, Colin

PB - Oxford University Press

CY - Oxford

ER -