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Against Scott's Grain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2019

Timothy R. Pauketat
Timothy R. Pauketat*
Affiliation:
Illinois State Archaeological SurveyUniversity of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana209 Nuclear Physics Lab, MC571 23 E. Stadium Drive Champaign, IL 61820USA Email: [email protected]
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Cultivars domesticated and organized people. Cereal grain-growing agriculturists—at least those lucky enough to live in floodplains—exploited others in order to sustain themselves. From such preconditions, states were born, the organizational fragilities of which routinely led to their dissolution, and to other sorts of social forms in peripheral locations. This is James Scott's Against the Grain in a nutshell.

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Review Symposium
Information
Cambridge Archaeological Journal , Volume 29 , Issue 4 , November 2019 , pp. 702 - 703
Copyright
Copyright © McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research 2019 

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