Standard text for teachers and students of political anthropology.
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...
Schism and continuity in an African society. Manchester University Press. Van Velson, J. 1964. The politics of kinship. Manchester University Press. 1 Examples of these may be found in Clyde Mitchell's Yao Village, J. Middletons Lugbara ...
In Political Anthropology, Donald V. Kurtz examines how anthropologists think about politics, political organizations, and problems fundamental to political anthropology.
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Politics: a static network of structural and functional models? Is it a -given- set of rules, statuses and procedures? Or a dynamic process, a continuum related to the past as...
In the foreword to the first edition, renowned anthropologist, Victor Turner, wrote that this book was a succinct and lucid account of the sporadic growth of political anthropology over the...
One of the aims of this book is to take tentative steps toward resolving the developing crisis by investigating the structure of political action revealed in empirical data.
Papers prepared for the 9th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Chicago, 1973.
This is the first English translation of Helmuth Plessner's seminal work Political Anthropology (1931).