Political Anthropology : : The State of the Art / / ed. by Henri J. Claessen, S. L. Seaton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Business and Economics <1990
• MitwirkendeR: AMSBURY, CLIFTON,; ARONOFF, MYRON J.,; AVERKIEVA, JULIA P.,; BAUER, DAN F.,; CLAESSEN, HENRI J. M.,; CLAESSEN, HENRI J. Μ.,; KURTZ, DONALD V.,; MATHUR, MARY E. FLEMING,; PECJAK, VID,; PERSHITS, ABRAHAM I.,; SERTEL, AYSE KUDAT,; SKALNÍK, PETER,; SMITH, M. ESTELLIE,; SOLENBERGER, ROBERT R.,; SZALAY, LORAND B.,; TIFFANY, WALTER W.,; URBANOWICZ, CHARLES F.,; WACHUKU, ALOZIE N.,; WEISSLEDER, WOLFGANG,
• HerausgeberIn: Claessen, Henri J.,; Seaton, S. L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]; ©1979
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (411 p.)

Table of Contents

• i-iv
• General Editor's Preface
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• PART ONE: Theory
• Political Anthropology: Issues and Trends on the Frontier
• New Directions in Political Anthropology: The Use of Corporate Models for the Analysis of Political Organizations
• PART TWO: Centers and Peripheries
• Patron-Client Structure in Modern World Organization
• Local-Level Politics and Social Change in Tigre: A Transactional Analysis of Adaptive Change
• The Duke had a Word for it: Local-Level Competition Between Tribals and Non-Tribals
• Tribute Relations
• The Promotion of Suzerainty Between Sedentary and Nomadic Populations in Eastern Ethiopia
• PART THREE: Authority and Power
• On the Forms of Disintegration of the Clan Society of North American Indians
• The Balance of Power in Primitive States
• The Dynamics of Early State Development in the Voltaic Area
• Citizenship and Sources of Political Authority in the Marianas
• Change in Rank and Status in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga
• Law and Negative Sanctions in African Societies
• PART FOUR: Political Culture
• Ritual in Consensual Power Relations: The Israel Labor Party
• Peasant Political Cognition: A Methodological Perspective
• Three Tiwa Communities and Their Response to Stress for Change
• A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Slovenian Sociopolitical Frames of Reference
• Biographical Notes
• Index of Names
• Index of Subjects