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Structural discontinuity — A critical factor in the emergence of primary and secondary states

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1. I would like to thank the following people for reading one or more of several drafts of this paper and for their helpful comments: R.Mc. Adams, R. Fox, P. Kohl, R. Weller and members of the Duke Faculty Seminar on Marxism. For the title I would like to thank an anonymous reviewer. A similar approach to that taken in this article can be found in S. Diamond, “Dahomey: A Proto-State in West Africa” (Unpublished dissertation. University of Michigan). All opinions or errors of fact or interpretation are my own.

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Zagarell, A. Structural discontinuity — A critical factor in the emergence of primary and secondary states. Dialect Anthropol 10, 155–177 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02343103

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