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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Henderson, John S.,
• MitwirkendeR: Cohen, Ronald,; Fried, Morton H.,; Goldman, Irving,; Henderson, John S.,; Katz, Friedrich,; Lechtman, Heather,; Linares, Olga F.,; Mintz, Sidney W.,; Morris, Craig,; Netherly, Patricia J.,; O’Brien, Denise,; Rothschild, Nan A.,; Service, Elman R.,; Smith, Robert J.,; Trigger, Bruce G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Netherly, Patricia J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction: Murra, Materialism, Anthropology, and the Andes --; Part I. ARCHAIC STATES --; 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 --; Part II. POWER, POLITICS, AND HIERARCHY --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501734977; 9783110536171
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501734977
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: John S. Henderson; ed. by Patricia J. Netherly.

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.