The Formation of Mycenaean Society: A Study in Secondary State Formation
FAIN: FB-51781-05
James C. Wright
Bryn Mawr College (Bryn Mawr, PA 19010-2859)
I request support to write a book on the origins and development of Mycenaean society of Late Bronze Age Greece. This is a case study of secondary state formation. I have compiled databases of settlement and mortuary remains and have several publications considering aspects of the dynamic social and political-economic processes in the formation of Mycenaean society. My work draws upon the model of factions, ethnographic studies of transegalitarian societies, and comparative study of the rise of complex societies in archipelagos. I consider the Mycenaean polities as early micro-states and compare them to contemporaneous polities in the Eastern Mediterranean and the later Greek poleis and ethno-polities.
Associated Products
Early Mycenaean Greece. (Book Section)Title: Early Mycenaean Greece.
Author: James Wright
Editor: Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
Abstract: An up-to-date review of the characteristics of the material culture of the later Middle and early phases of the Late Bronze Ages on the Mainland of Greece and how they may be interpreted to write a narrative of the formation of Mycenaean Civilization
Year: 2008
Primary URL:
http://www.cambridge.org/gr/academic/subjects/classical-studies/classical-art-and-architecture/cambridge-companion-aegean-bronze-ageAccess Model: Purchase
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Book Title: The Cambridge Companion to the Aegean Bronze Age
ISBN: 978-0-521-8144