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Ancient Society

Ancient Society more books like this

by Lewis Henry Morgan

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In this text, Victorian intellectual Lewis Henry Morgan defines three major stages in the cultural and social evolution of mankind. In his introduction, Robin Fox reviews Morgan's thesis in the light of what we have learned in the 20th century.

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Power and Its Disguises - Second Edition: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics

Power and Its Disguises - Second Edition: Anthropological Perspectives on Politics more books like this

by John Gledhill

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Shows how the study of the micro-dynamics of power in everyday life, coupled with sensitivity to interactions between local and global processes, offers critical insights into such issues as state terror and ethnic violence, the emancipatory potential of social movements and the politics of rights, gender and culture.

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Origins of the State and Civilization: The Process of Cultural Evolution

Origins of the State and Civilization: The Process of Cultural Evolution more books like this

by Elman Rogers Service

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Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-Political Change

Peer Polity Interaction and Socio-Political Change more books like this

by Colin Renfrew, John F Cherry

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Thirteen leading archaeologists have contributed to this innovative study of the socio-political processes - notably imitation, competition, warfare, and the exchange of material goods and information - that can be observed within early complex societies, particularly those just emerging into statehood. The common aim is to explain the remarkable ...

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The evolution of political society: an essay in political anthropology more books like this

by Morton H Fried

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Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power

Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power more books like this

by Roberto J Gonzalez (Editor)

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Anthropologists have a long tradition of prescient diagnoses of world events. Possessing a knowledge of culture, society, and history not always shared by the media's talking heads, anthropologists have played a crucial role in educating the general reader on the public debates from World War I to the second Gulf War. This anthology collects over ...

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Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics

Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics more books like this

by Scott Michaelsen (Editor), John E Johnson, J.D, David E Johnson (Editor)

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Challenging the prevailing assumption that border studies occurs refers only to the border between Mexico and the United States, the authors gathered in this volume examine the multiple borders that define the United States and the Americas, including the Mason-Dixon line, the U.S.-Canadian border, the shifting boundaries of urban diasporas, and ...

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The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities

The Political Landscape: Constellations of Authority in Early Complex Polities more books like this

by Adam T Smith

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Shifting through the archaeological, epigraphic and artistic remains of early complex societies, this far-reaching work attempts to explain the links between spatial organization and politics from an anthropological point of view.

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Political Anthropology: An Introduction, Second Edition

Political Anthropology: An Introduction, Second Edition more books like this

by Ted C Lewellen

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This book offers a comprehensive overview of political anthropology, including its history, its major research findings, and its theoretical concerns both past and present. The second edition has been significantly updated and expanded, with extensive changes in many chapters, three additional chapters, and a new conclusion. It serves as a basic ...

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Tradition and Contract: The Problem of Social Order

Tradition and Contract: The Problem of Social Order more books like this

by Elizabeth Colson

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Medical Anthropology and the World System: Second Edition

Medical Anthropology and the World System: Second Edition more books like this

by Hans A Baer, Merrill Singer, Ida Susser

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This is the first textbook on medical anthropology that examines the global diversity of health systems.

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Ancient society, or Researches in the lines of human progress from savagery through barbarism to civilization more books like this

by Lewis Henry Morgan

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This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark ...

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African Political Systems more books like this

by Fortes

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This work, which involved the collaboration of leading figures in the field of social anthropology, undertakes the comparative study of African political systems, as an example of the wider field of the study of political institutions in traditional societies in general. The book is based upon file studies of eight African societies - the Zulu, ...

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Blood and Bone: The Call of Kinship in Somali Society more books like this

by Professor I M Lewis

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An analysis challenging contemporary anthropological understanding of kinship structures.

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Anthropology, Politics, and the State: Democracy and Violence in South Asia more books like this

by Jonathan Spencer

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In recent years anthropology has rediscovered its interest in politics. Building on the findings of this research, this book offers a new way of analysing the relationship between culture and politics, with special attention to democracy, nationalism, the state and political violence. Beginning with scenes from an unruly early 1980s election ...

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Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World more books like this

by Eric R Wolf, Sydel Silverman, Aram Yengoyan (Foreword by)

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This collection of 28 essays by renowned anthropologist Eric R. Wolf is a legacy of some of his most original work, with an insightful foreword by Aram Yengoyan. Of the essays, six have never been published and two have not appeared in English until now. Shortly before his death, Wolf prepared introductions to each section and individual pieces, ...

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Game Without End: State Terror and the Politics of Justice more books like this

by Jaime Malamud-Goti, Libbet Crandon-Malamud (Foreword by)

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An insider's honest assessment of Argentina's human rights trials

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The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms more books like this

by Patrick Vinton Kirch

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This is the first study from an archaeological perspective of the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of complex social and political systems in this region have long interested anthropologists and ethnographers, only recently have the islands' rich sources of archaeological data been ...

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World in Disorder1994-1995 more books like this

by Sheldon Smith

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This revised edition offers a non-polemic and pragmatic multidisciplinary perspective called the "theory of blocked transitions". This theory works to answer the question "Why have some societies been successful in going through transitions, while others have been "blocked in"?

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Ranking and Resistance: A Precolonial Cameroonian Polity in Regional Perspective more books like this

by Richard G Dillon

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Based upon extended anthropological fieldwork and ethnohistorical reconstruction, this is a study of the precolonical political system of an acephalous society in West Africa. The Meta' are a sedentary farming people living in what is now the Republic of Cameroon. In the precolonial era, the Meta' had created a polity that was remarkable for its ...

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The Management of Conflict: Interpretations and Interests in Comparative Perspective more books like this

by Marc H Ross

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This text offers a cross-cultural approach to conflict management. It identifies key features of constructive conflict management societies and evaluates three strategies of conflict management showing how each succeeds or fails, for example, the hostility in Northern Ireland.

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At the Dawn of Tyranny more books like this

by Eli Sagan

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States of Imagination- CL more books like this

by Thomas Blom Hansen (Editor), Finn Stepputat (Editor), Thomas Blomhansen (Editor)

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The state has recently been rediscovered as an object of inquiry in a broad range of disciplines. New methodological and theoretical approaches have shed light on the meanings and practices that, for good and for bad, turn the state into the great enframer of our lives. States of Imagination draws together the best of this recent critical thinking ...

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Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action more books like this

by Mark Mattern

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This account of politics and popular music develops the concept of "acting in concert," a metaphor for community based political action that is communicated in and around music. Through detailed case studies, the text explores how communities use popular music to understand democratic processes.

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Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society more books like this

by Max Gluckman

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What can we learn from deceptively simple tribal societies about the ways in which man resolves his conflicts with other men? How can the social anthropologist aid in our understanding of the problems of power and social control common to all societies, from the simplest to the highly complex? What special tools of the anthropologist enable him to ...

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