From Equality to Inequality : Social Change Among Newly Sedentary Lanoh Hunter-Gatherer Traders of Peninsular Malaysia / Csilla Dallos.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dallos, Csilla, 1963- author.

Series:

Anthropological horizons.

Anthropological Horizons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orang Asal (Malaysian people)--Social conditions.

Orang Asal (Malaysian people).

Social change--Malaysia.

Social change.

Equality--Malaysia.

Equality.

Malaysia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

From Equality to Inequality provides rich empirical data on the factors within a community that significantly affect the development of inequality, including the effects of sedentism, integration, leadership competition, self-aggrandizement, marginalization, and feuding kinship groups. In this case study, Dallos argues that in order to understand emerging inequality, anthropologists and social scientists need to revisit current conceptions of politics in small-scale egalitarian societies. Offering a new model of developing social inequality that is congruent with the principles of complexity theory, From Equality to Inequality is a sterling example of how anthropological practice can further our general understanding of human behaviour."--Pub. desc

"The egalitarian society once enjoyed by the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia is quickly changing. Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh, Csilla Dallos studied and interpreted social change in order to better understand the processes leading to inequality and the concurrent development of social complexity within a community

Contents:

Equality, inequality, and changing hunter-gatherers

Interethnic trade and social organization of pre-settlement Lanoh

The changing context of interethnic relations : from power balance to power imbalance

Withdrawl from contact and the development of village identity

Leadership competition, self-aggrandizement, and inequality

Pre-settlement organization, village integration, and self-aggrandizing strategies

Understanding equality and inequality in small-scale societies.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

1-4426-6171-2

1-4426-9346-0

OCLC:

755882948