I see. Wikipedia lots of material about dominance in other animals - and it has at least one reference which is relevant to humans.
I also found Dominance, Status, and Social Hierarchies By Denise Cummins - which has references.
Aha! I didn't think to attach "hierarchy" to the Wikipedia search. The chapter looks promising, too. Thank you!
I'm trying to do some research related to human dominance including social signaling and how dominance is both successfully and unsuccessfully challenged. Ideally I'd like to find what the common factors are rather than having it be too particular to one community or another. Unfortunately everything I can find on the topic is either about dominance behavior of other primates or is ad-hoc self-help advice by self-proclaimed gurus of social power.
Can anyone point me in the direction of the science of human dominance behavior?