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

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 co...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Backlist (2000-2014) eBook Package
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]
©2011
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Anthropological Horizons
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps and Figures
  • Tables
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • 1. Equality, Inequality, and Changing Hunter-Gatherers
  • 2. Interethnic Trade and the Social Organization of Pre-resettlement Lanoh
  • 3. The Changing Context of Interethnic Relations: From Power Balance to Power Imbalance
  • 4. Withdrawal from Contact and the Development of Village Identity
  • 5. Leadership Competition, Self-Aggrandizement, and Inequality
  • 6. Pre-resettlement Organization, Village Integration, and Self- Aggrandizing Strategies
  • 7. Understanding Equality and Inequality in Small-Scale Societies
  • Language Notes and Glossary
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index