Chiefdoms : yesterday and today / edited by Robert L. Carneiro, A merican Museum of Natural History, New York, New York, USA, Leonid E. Grinin, Russian Academy of Sciences and National Research Univerisity Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia, Andrey V. Korotayev, National Research University School of Economics and Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia.

Includes index.

Chiefdoms from the beginnings to now / Leonid E. Grinin and Andrey V. Korotayev -- Chiefdoms in evolutionary perspective / Robert L. Carneiro -- Chiefdoms and their analogues : alternatives of social evolution at the societal level of medium cultural complexity / Leonid E. Grinin and Andrey V. Korotayev -- On chiefs and chiefdoms / Henri J.M. Claessen -- The emergence of multi-agent polities of the northern Central European plains in the early middle ages, 600-900 a.d. / Ludomir Lozny -- Heterarchy and hierarchy among the ancient Mongolian nomads / Nikolay N. Kradin -- Chiefdom confederacies and state origins / D. Blair Gibson -- Complex chiefdom : precursor of the state or its analogue? / Leonid E. Grinin -- Chiefs, chieftaincies, chiefdoms, and chiefly confederacies : power in the evolution of political systems / Timothy K. Earle -- Chiefdom at war with chiefless people while the state looks on / Peter Skalnik -- Beyond states and empires : chiefdoms and informal politics / Patrick Chabal, Gary M. Feinman, and Peter Skalnik -- Chiefdoms : beyond time? / Andrey V. Korotayev and Leonid E. Grinin.