Ideology and the Formation of Early States

Henri J.M. Claessen, Ph.D. (1970) Amsterdam, is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His main fields of interest are the evolution of socio-political organization, early state formation, traditional Polynesia. He has published widely on these subjects.

Jarich G. Oosten, Ph.D. (1976) University of Groningen, is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Leiden University, The Netherlands. His main fields of interest are structuralist anthropology, early European cultures, Arctic cultures. He has published on Indo-European mythology and Arctic religions.