Anthropological Approaches to Political Behavior
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Anthropological Approaches to Political Behavior

Contributions from Ethnology

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Anthropological Approaches to Political Behavior

Contributions from Ethnology

About this book

Power is immanent in human affairs; by definition, human beings are political animals. The only way to fully comprehend and analyze the complexities of power is to locate where material, psychological, and social dimensions of political power are ultimately and socially situated and reproduced. This collection of essays highlights the theoretical concerns of political anthropology. Initially published in the journal Ethnology, the essays were classroom tested and collected on the basis of student comments. An in-depth introduction presents the intellectual traditions in political anthropology and focuses particularly on the manner in which various periods defined and dealt with the nature of social power. It also places current works within the framework of critical but constantly revised theoretical problems.Contributors: Mart Bax; Ernest Brandewie; Karen J. Brison; Philip A. Dennis; Richard G. Dillon; Harvey E. Goldberg; James Howe; Donald T. Hughes; Roger M. Keesing; Donald V. Kurtz; Charles Lindhom; Robert F. Maher; Richard W. Miller; Sydel F. Silverman; L. Lewis Wall; Daniela Weinberg

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Intoduction
  5. Ritual Regulation in Meta' Lega Process
  6. The Place of the Big Man in Traditional Hagen Society in the Central Highlands of New Guinea
  7. Killers, Big Men, and Priests on Malaita: Reflections on a Melanesian Troika System
  8. All Talk and No Action? Saying and Doing in Kwanga Meetings
  9. Anuak Politics, Ecology, and the Origins of Shilluk Kingship
  10. Strategies of Legitimation and the Aztec State
  11. The Structure of Violence Among the Swat Pukhtum
  12. Class, Politics, and Family Organization in San Cosme Xalostoc, Mexico
  13. The Oaxacan Village President as Political Middleman
  14. Patronage and Community-Nation Relationships in Central Italy
  15. Egalitarianism in an Autocratic Village in Israel
  16. Conflicting Political Models in a Swiss Commune
  17. Popular Devotions, Power, and Religious Regimes in Catholic Dutch Brabant
  18. From Cannibal Raid to Copra Kompani: Changing Patterns of Koriki Politics
  19. Reciprocal Influence of Traditional and Democratic Leadership Roles on Ponape
  20. The Effects of Writing on the Cuna Political System