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The dynamics of wealth and poverty in the Transegalitarian societies of Southeast Asia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Brian Hayden
Brian Hayden*
Affiliation:
Archaeology Department, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC, Canada V5A 1S6
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Abstract

Understanding how differential wealth develops between households in villages is one key to understanding how socioeconomic inequalities develop; a key theoretical issue for archaeologists. An ethnoarchaeological perspective in Southeast Asia gains major insights into how socioeconomic inequalities emerged and were maintained, with numerous implications for other cereal and stock based prehistoric cultures, such as those of Neolithic Europe.

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wealthfeastingtransegalitarianSoutheast Asiadomestic animals
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Antiquity , Volume 75 , Issue 289 , September 2001 , pp. 571 - 581
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2001

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