Until quite recently, cultural evolution has commonly been regarded as the permanent teleological move to a greater level of hierarchy, crowned by state formation. However, recent research, particularly those based upon the principle of heterarchy --- л...the relation of elements to one another when they are unranked or when they possess the potential for being ranked in a number of different ways╗ (Crumley 1995: 3) changes the usual picture dramatically.... (Información más detallada)
