Political anthropology : power and paradigms /
Politics is all about power, and power--its composition, creation, and use--pervades this unique and clearly written assessment of the paradigms by which anthropologists explain and understand political phenomena. In Political Anthropology, Donald V. Kurtz examines how anthropologists think about po...
| Основен автор: | Kurtz, Donald V. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
Boulder, Colo. :
Westview Press,
2001.
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Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Подобни документи: |
Online version::
Political anthropology. |
Съдържание:
- Introduction
- pt. 1: Paradigms and science. The paradigms of political anthropology
- pt. 2: Political essentials. Political power ; Political leaders and authorities ; Succession to political status and office and the legitimation of political authority
- pt. 3: Paradigms and topics of political anthropology. The structural-functional paradigm ; The politics of kinship ; The processual paradigm ; The paradigm of political economy ; The paradigm of political evolution: neo-evolution and political organization ; The paradigm of political evolution: the evolution of politics ; Anthropology and the study of the state ; The postmodern paradigm of political anthropology : the genre of experimental political ethnography.