Configurations of Power : Holistic Anthropology in Theory and Practice / John S. Henderson; Patricia J. Netherly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Henderson, John S., Author.

Contributor:

Netherly, Patricia J., Editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (344 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this book, fifteen distinguished anthropologists offer essays that are committed to a holistic approach to the study of anthropology, with emphasis on the collection of primary data and on sound description and the presentation of empirical facts.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Murra, Materialism, Anthropology, and the Andes

1. The Nature of the Andean State

2. The Wealth of a Native American State: Value, Investment, and Mobilization in the Inka Economy

3. Divine Kingship in the Formation of the Japanese State, 1868—1945

4. The State-Church Reconsidered

5. Political Power and the Origin of Social Complexity

6. Hierarchy and Power in the Tropical Forest

7. State and Household Crops among the Jola (Diola) of Senegal

8. Women, Status, and High Office in African Polities

9. Women’s Writing in Heian Japan: Expressions of Power

10. Keeping Up with the Stuyvesants: House Size and Status in Seventeenth-Century New Amsterdam

11. Technologies of Power: The Andean Case

12. Pancho Villa and the United States

13. Old Postulates and New China

Epilogue: Clio Rediviva

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)

ISBN:

1-5017-3497-0

OCLC:

1198931768