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Author: Makhan Jha Publisher: ISBN: Category : Buddhist shrines Languages : en Pages : 126
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The Present Volume Throws Light On The Various Aspects Of The Complex Indian Society With Special Refenrece To The Sacred Complex Studies Of Hindu And Buddhist Sacred Centres Of India, Nepal And Thailand. Without Dust Jacket.
Author: Makhan Jha Publisher: ISBN: Category : Buddhist shrines Languages : en Pages : 126
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The Present Volume Throws Light On The Various Aspects Of The Complex Indian Society With Special Refenrece To The Sacred Complex Studies Of Hindu And Buddhist Sacred Centres Of India, Nepal And Thailand. Without Dust Jacket.
Author: Michael Banton Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1136539972 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 200
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This volume illustrates how much the study of social anthropologists has encompassed other, non-primitive societies: rural Italy, urban Africa, village politics in India and the smaller ex-colonial territories of Fiji and Mauritius are just some of the areas covered by the book. The position and contribution of British community studies is also examined, illustrating how micro-sociology can be made relevant to macro-sociology. Originally published 1966.
Author: Abner Cohen Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317400488 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 153
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Central to this original study, first published in 1974, is that Political Man is also Symbolist Man, that man is two-dimensional. The book explores the possibilities of the systematic study of the dialectical interdependence between power relationships and symbolic action in modern, complex society. The discussion focuses on the processes by which interest groups, that cannot organise themselves formally, manipulate different types of symbolic formations to articulate a number of basic organisational functions: distinctiveness, communication, decision-making, authority, ideology and socialisation. The analysis is worked out in terms of specific case studies of different types of groupings, or ‘invisible organisations’ – ethnic, elitist, religious, ritually secret, cousinhood – which go through processes of cultural metamorphosis, shifting from one symbolic strategy to another, in response to changes in their circumstances. In conclusion, the discussion is brought to bear on the study of stratification in large-scale industrial society generally.
Author: Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth Publisher: London : Tavistock Publications ISBN: Category : Anthropology Languages : en Pages : 210
Author: Pierre Clastres Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0942299876 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 173
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In this seminal, founding work of political anthropology, Pierre Clastres takes on some of the most abiding and essential questions of human civilization: What is power? What is society? How, among all the possible modes of political organization, did we come to choose the monolithic State model and its accompanying regimes of coercion? As Clastres shows, other and different regimes do indeed exist, and they existed long before ours — regimes in which power, though it manifests itself everywhere, is nonetheless noncoercive. In such societies, political culture, and cultural practices generally, are not only not submissive to the State model, but they actively avert it, rendering impossible the very conditions in which coercive power and the State could arise. How then could our own “societies of the State” ever have arisen from these rich and complex stateless societies, and why? Clastres brilliantly and imaginatively addresses these questions, meditating on the peculiar shape and dynamics of so-called “primitive societies,” and especially on the discourses with which “civilized” (i.e., political, economic, literate) peoples have not ceased to reduce and contain them. He refutes outright the idea that the State is the ultimate and logical density of all societies. On the contrary, Clastres develops a whole alternate and always affirmative political technology based on values such as leisure, prestige, and generosity. Through individual essays he explores and deftly situates the anarchistic political and social roles of storytelling, homosexuality, jokes, ruinous gift-giving, and the torturous ritual marking of the body, placing them within an economy of power and desire very different from our own, one whose most fundamental goal is to celebrate life while rendering the rise of despotic power impossible. Though power itself is shown to be inseparable from the richest and most complex forms of social life, the State is seen as a specific but grotesque aberration peculiar only to certain societies, not least of which is our own. Not for sale in the U.K. and British Commonwealth, South Africa, Burma, Jordan, and Iraq.
Author: Anthony Lee Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 150171371X Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 289
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Cities, Classes, and the Social Order brings together nine conceptual and theoretical essays by the anthropologist, Anthony Leeds (1925–1989), whose pioneering work in the anthropology of complex societies was built on formative personal and research experiences in both urban and rural settings in the United States, Brazil, Venezuela, and Portugal. Leeds brought to his anthropology a simultaneous concern for science and humanism, and for explanation and interpretation. He constructed a nuanced and intricate vision of the connections among ecology, technology, history, evolution, structure, process, power, culture, social organization, and human creativity. The essays in this book draw on his approach to demarcate the role of cities in human history, the use and abuse of class analysis, the bases of power in complex societies, and an agenda for ethnographic and social-historical research in the contemporary world. In addition to major but little-known writings and an important essay on Marx here published for the first time in English, a selection of Leeds's ethnographically and politically inspired poems are included, as are several of his professionally exhibited photographs. In addition, introductory essays by R. Timothy Sieber and Roger Sanjek chart the course of Leeds's career and the development of his theoretical viewpoint.
Author: Margaret Mead Publisher: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781571818164 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 324
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Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures. This volume collects and presents a variety of her essays on research methodology relating to contemporary culture. Many of these essays were printed originally in limited circulation journals, research reports and books edited by others. They reflect Mead's continuing commitment to searching out methods for studying and extending the anthropologist's tools of investigation for use in complex societies. Essays on American and European societies, intergenerational relations, architecture and social space, industrialization, and interracial relations are included in this varied and exciting collection.
Author: George Peter Murdock Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre ISBN: 0822974061 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 389
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Twenty four essays cover a broad range of topics in cultural anthropology, and represent the best writings of George Peter Murdock and reveal his theoretical orientation and his many landmark contributions to the field.
Author: Makhan Jha
Author: Makhan Jha
Author: William T. Sanders
Author: Michael Banton
Author: Abner Cohen
Author: Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth
Author: Pierre Clastres
Author: Michael Banton
Author: Anthony Lee
Author: Margaret Mead
Author: George Peter Murdock