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Political Anthropology : Power And Paradigms
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kurtz, Donald V.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Political aspects.
- Political anthropology.
- Politics.
- Local Subjects:
- Anthropology--Political aspects.
- Political anthropology.
- Politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (261 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Westview Press, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An examination of the ideas that constitute the research paradigms and selected topics by which anthropologists explain and understand power, politics, political organizations, and political topics across ethnographic and historical space and time.
- Contents:
- Contents; Figures; Introduction; Part One: Paradigms and Science; 1 The Paradigms of Political Anthropology; Part Two: Political Essentials; 2 Political Power; 3 Political Leaders and Authorities; 4 Succession to Political Status and Office and the Legitimation of Political Authority; Part Three: Paradigms and Topics of Political Anthropology; 5 The Structural-Functional Paradigm; 6 The Politics of Kinship; 7 The Processual Paradigm; 8 The Paradigm of Political Economy; 9 The Paradigm of Political Evolution; 10 The Paradigm of Political Evolution; 11 Anthropology and the Study of the State
- 12 The Postmodern Paradigm of Political AnthropologyReferences; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-429-97789-1
- 1-283-27652-6
- 9786613276520
- 0-8133-4617-7
- 1-4294-8895-6
- OCLC:
- 746747187
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