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.)

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.

Table of Contents

• 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