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centralization of authority (google this)
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national geographic article about pre-incan society that held centralized control by collecting the mummies of rural communities.
this document describes the normans who centralized documentation of ownerships and contractual obligations. Documents had to be mirrored in the central archive in order to be considered legitimate. This marginalized all existing agreements and contracts and gave the repository keepers unprecedented powers.
http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~jdouglas/readerly.pdf from http://web.nwe.ufl.edu/~jdouglas/publications.html
Dated: 11/13/2002
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