The Politics of Egalitarianism : : Theory and Practice / / ed. by Jacqueline Solway.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Biesele, Megan,; Brodkin, Karen,; Gailey, Christine Ward,; Guenther, Mathias,; Hitchcock, Robert K.,; Patterson, Thomas C.,; Sahlins, Marshall,; Solway, Jacqueline,; Susser, Ida,; Sylvain, Renée,; Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall,; Trigger, Bruce G.,
• HerausgeberIn: Solway, Jacqueline,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology ; 14
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

The essays assembled in this book exemplify the way political anthropologists address a range of problems that deeply affect people throughout the world. The authors draw their inspiration from the work of Canadian anthropologist Richard B. Lee, and, like him, they are concerned with understanding and acting upon issues of “indigenous rights”; the impact of colonialism, postcolonial state formation, and neoliberalism on local communities and cultures; the process of culture change; what the history and politics of egalitarian societies reveal about issues of “human nature” or “social evolution”; and how peoples in southern Africa are affected by and responding to the most recent crisis in their midst, the spread of AIDS. The authors in this volume discuss the state of a range of contemporary debates in the field that in various ways extend the political, theoretical, and empirical issues that have animated Lee's work. In addition, the book provides readers with important contemporary Kalahari studies, as well as “classic” works on foraging societies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I: The Politics and Practices of Egalitarianism -- 1. All People Are (Not) Good -- 2. Community, State, and Questions of Social Evolution in Karl Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks -- 3. Subtle Matters of Theory and Emphasis: Richard Lee and Controversies about Foraging Peoples -- 4. “The Original Affluent Society”: Four Decades On -- 5. The Original Affluent Society -- 6. On the Politics of Being Jewish in a Multiracial State -- Part II: The Kalahari Then and Now -- 7. The Lion/Bushman Relationship in Nyae Nyae in the 1950s: A Relationship Crafted in the Old Way -- 8. The Kalahari Peoples Fund: The Activist Legacy of the Harvard Kalahari Research Group -- 9. Land, Livestock, and Leadership among the Ju/’hoansi San of North-Western Botswana -- 10. Contemporary Bushman Art, Identity Politics, and the Primitivism Discourse -- 11. Class, Culture, and Recognition: San Farm Workers and Indigenous Identities -- 12. The Other Side of Development: HIV/AIDS among Men and Women in Ju/’hoansi Villages -- Part III: Richard Borshay Lee: An Appreciation -- 13. Richard B. Lee and Company: A Kalahari Chronicle, 1963–2000 -- 14. Richard B. Lee: The Politics, Art, and Science of Anthropology -- Richard Borshay Lee: Selected Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index