Property and equality. Volume II : encapsulation, commercialization, discrimination / edited by Thomas Widlok and Wolde Gossa Tadesse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tadesse, Wolde Gossa, editor.

Widlok, Thomas, editor.

Series:

Property and equality

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Equality--Cross-cultural studies.

Equality.

Property--Cross-cultural studies.

Property.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Berghahn Books, [2005]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The ethnography of egalitarian social systems was first met with sheer disbelief. Today it is still hotly debated in a number of fields and has gained sophistication as well as momentum. This collection of essays on "property and equality" acknowledges this diversification by presenting research results in two complementary volumes. They bring together a wide range of authoritative researchers most of whom have worked with hunter-gatherer groups. These two volumes cover existing ethnographic and theoretical ground while maintaining a clear focus on the relation between property and equality. The book consists of the most recent work of prominent members of the original group of researchers in hunter-gatherer studies among them James Woodburn and Richard Lee, and very recent ethnography on hunter-gatherers and other egalitarian systems.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Preface

Introduction

1 Power and Property in Twenty-First Century Foragers A Critical Examination

2 Money Makes the World Go Round? Commodity Sharing, Gifting and Exchange in the Baka (Pygmy) Economy

3 Whose Forest Is It Anyway? Mbendjele Yaka Pygmies, the Ndoki Forest and the Wider World

4 The Significance of Trade in an Immediate-Return Society: The Batek Case

5 The Road to Equality? Landscape Transformation and the Batek of Pahang, Malaysia

6 Equalising Processes, Processes of Discrimination and the Forest People of Central Africa

7 Delay, Return and Hierarchy: Six Aboriginal Marriage Systems Compared

8 The Power of Women in an Ostensibly Male-Dominated Agro-Pastoral Society

9 The Incorporated Ground: The Contemporary Work of Distribution in the Kutubu Oil Project Area, Papua New Guinea

10 Sharing the Land: Kalahari San Property Rights and Resource Management

11 The Professionalisation and Commoditisation of the Contemporary Bushman Trance Dancer and Trance Dance, and the Decline of Sharing

12 From Humility to Lordship in Island Southeast Asia

Notes on Contributors

Index

Notes:

Based on the conference, entitled 'Property and Equality' held at Halle/Saale in June 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80073-403-4

OCLC:

1266909068