The politics of egalitarianism : theory and practice / edited by Jacqueline Solway.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Solway, Jacqueline S., editor.

Series:

Methodology and history in anthropology ; Volume 12.

Methodology & History in Anthropology ; Volume 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lee, Richard B.

Indigenous peoples--Social conditions.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--Government relations.

Indigenous peoples--Civil rights.

San (African people)--Civil rights.

San (African people).

San (African people)--Government relations.

San (African people)--Colonization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (268 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York, [New York] ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2006.

Summary:

The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect people throughout the world. The authors draw their inspiration from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee, and, like him, they are concerned with understanding and acting upon issues of “indigenous rights”; the impact of colonialism, postcolonial state formation, and neoliberalism on local communities and cultures; the process of culture change; what the history and politics of egalitarian societies reveal about issues of “human nature” or “social evolution”; and how peoples in southern Africa are affected by and responding to the most recent crisis in their midst, the spread of AIDS. The authors in this volume discuss the state of a range of contemporary debates in the field that in various ways extend the political, theoretical, and empirical issues that have animated Lee's work. In addition, the book provides readers with important contemporary Kalahari studies, as well as “classic” works on foraging societies.

Contents:

The Politics of Egalitarianism; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I. The Politics and Practices of Egalitarianism; Chapter 1. ALL PEOPLE ARE (NOT) GOOD; Chapter 2 COMMUNITY, STATE, AND QUESTIONS OF SOCIAL EVOLUTION IN KARL MARX'S ETHNOLOGICAL NOTEBOOKS; Chapter 3. SUBTLE MATTERS OF THEORY AND EMPHASIS; Chapter 4. "THE ORIGINAL AFFLUENT SOCIETY": FOUR DECADES ON; Chapter 5. THE ORIGINAL AFFLUENT SOCIETY; Chapter 6. ON THE POLITICS OF BEING JEWISH IN A MULTIRACIAL STATE; PART II. The Kalahari Then and Now; Chapter 7. THE LION/BUSHMAN RELATIONSHIP IN NYAE NYAE IN THE 1950S

Chapter 8. THE KALAHARI PEOPLES FUNDChapter 9. LAND, LIVESTOCK, AND LEADERSHIP AMONG THE JU/'HOANSI SAN OF NORTH-WESTERN BOTSWANA; Chapter 10. CONTEMPORARY BUSHMAN ART, IDENTITY POLITICS, AND THE PRIMITIVISM DISCOURSE; Chapter 11. CLASS, CULTURE, AND RECOGNITION; Chapter 12. THE OTHER SIDE OF DEVELOPMENT; PART III. Richard Borshay Lee: An Appreciation; Chapter 13. RICHARD B. LEE AND COMPANY; Chapter 14. RICHARD B. LEE: THE POLITICS, ART, AND SCIENCE OF ANTHROPOLOGY; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781845451141

1845451147

9781782388852

1782388850

OCLC:

961878741