The Politics of Egalitarianism : : Theory and Practice /

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

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 a...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (272 p.)
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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

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