Sham Governance: shamanistic male control over non-egalitarian hunter gatherer societies, in breakthrough 1996 chapter by Stephen Shennan

SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND TRANSMISSION OF CULTURAL TRADITIONS IN FORAGER SOCIETIES

The object of this chapter is to sketch out the basis of an archaeological approach to examining the interrelationships between cultural traditions, inequality and the maintenance of social groups through time. The approach is intended to be of general relevance, but the discu…