caa a22 4500 388078073 CHVBK 20180307125204.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199904 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0959774300015183 doi S0959774300015183 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0959774300015183 Flannery Kent V. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA Process and Agency in Early State Formation [Elektronische Daten] [Kent V. Flannery] Most pristine states formed in the context of competing chiefdoms, when one of the latter succeeded in incorporating its rivals into a larger polity. Some of the processes evident during state formation include chiefly cycling, biased transmission, territorial expansion, and the gaining of competitive advantage. In some archaeological circles, however, it has become fashionable to reject ecological, demographic, and technological processes, and seek agent-based or ideological explanations for state formation. This essay, delivered as the tenth McDonald Lecture, examines five agents who modified ideologies and created states from chiefdoms. It concludes that process and agency are complementary, rather than antithetical, perspectives; thus the latter is unlikely to make the former obsolete. Copyright © The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 1999 Cambridge Archaeological Journal Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-04), 3-21 0959-7743 9:1<3 1999 9 CAJ https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774300015183 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0959774300015183 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Flannery Kent V. Museum of Anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cambridge Archaeological Journal Cambridge University Press 9/1(1999-04), 3-21 0959-7743 9:1<3 1999 9 CAJ CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge