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Book System of Political Control and Bureaucracy in Human Societies   Proceedings of the 1958 Annual Spring Meeting of the American

Download or read book System of Political Control and Bureaucracy in Human Societies Proceedings of the 1958 Annual Spring Meeting of the American written by American Ethnological Society and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Systems of Political Control and Bureaucracy in Human Societies

Download or read book Systems of Political Control and Bureaucracy in Human Societies written by American Ethnological Society. Annual Spring Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Systems of Political Control and Bureaucracy in Human Societies

Download or read book Systems of Political Control and Bureaucracy in Human Societies written by American Ethnological Society and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1958 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Systems of Political Control and Bureaucracy in Human Societies

Download or read book Systems of Political Control and Bureaucracy in Human Societies written by Verne F. Ray and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Systems of Political Control and Bureaucracy in Human Society

Download or read book Systems of Political Control and Bureaucracy in Human Society written by American Ethnological Society and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Energy and Structure

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  • Author : Richard Newbold Adams
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2014-02-19
  • ISBN : 0292762224
  • Pages : 372 pages

Download or read book Energy and Structure written by Richard Newbold Adams and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All social structures are essentially power structures dependent on energy. The concept of power and the role of energy in social organization are crucial and timely concerns, especially in light of the current apprehension about future energy resources. In Energy and Structure, Richard N. Adams argues that social power affects humanity's approach to ecological, economic, and political problems, directing people to seek solutions that are often deceptively shortsighted. Adams, an anthropologist, proposes that social power is directly derived from control over energy processes. He identifies how power and mentalistic structures constitute fundamental determinants that shape the lives of people at all stages of cultural development, forcing them to accept alternatives often far removed from their desires. His central thesis is that the amount of power in any system varies with the amount of control exercised over the environment and that increasing power and control lead to increasing centralization of decision-making, social marginalization, and environmental despoliation. Thus the more highly developed societies, by virtue of their greater controls, are responsible for the greater ultimate subordination and destruction of human potential, as humanity combines technological advances with a growing inability to exercise good judgment with respect to our own survival. Energy and Structure begins with an examination of the basic theory of social power—what it is and how it works. Adams defines and differentiates between the concepts of power and control, authority and legitimacy, power domains and levels. He then examines the underlying metatheory of energetic and mentalistic structures and provides an analytic model of the evolution of power, from the primitive band to modern nations. He predicts the emergence of supranational blocs and discusses other future possibilities. Throughout, his theoretical points are solidly supported by examples drawn from a wide range of cultures.

Book Proceedings of the     Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society

Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society written by American Ethnological Society. Spring Meeting and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the     Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society

Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Spring Meeting of the American Ethnological Society written by American Ethnological Society and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Politics  Law and Ritual in Tribal Society

Download or read book Politics Law and Ritual in Tribal Society written by Max Gluckman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-04 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can we learn from tribal societies about the ways in which, in a variety of social settings, groups of men resolve their conflicts with other men? In order to answer this question, Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society compares nearly forty case study societies, most of them in Africa, in their reconstructed pre-colonial tribal condition, comparing their small-scale social relations to their large-scale social context. At the outset Gluckman explains to the reader that custom is the focus of interest of all types of anthropology. Yet his approach manifests a strong interest in economy, politics, and social relationships.In the volume, Max Gluckman offers a succinct version of a lifetime of opinionated analysis. This material is organized by theme and the ethnographic examples appear as brief illustrations of theoretical questions. Discussed here also is the relation between disputes and struggles for power within the context of mechanisms of social control and stability.In addition, Gluckman presents a step-by-step survey of the cumulative development of the anthropological analysis of tribal institutions, from the nineteenth century to the present, and supports the argument that anthropology is a science rather than an art. The new masterful introduction by Sally Falk Moore, along with a new postscript of Gluckman's professional activities and publications, provides newcomers to the work of Gluckman with deep insights into the contents as well as contexts within which the great anthropologist worked.

Book Resources for the Teaching of Anthropology

Download or read book Resources for the Teaching of Anthropology written by David G. Mandelbaum and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proceedings of the Annual Spring Meeting

Download or read book Proceedings of the Annual Spring Meeting written by American Ethnological Society and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Passing of Tribal Man in Africa

Download or read book Passing of Tribal Man in Africa written by Gutkind and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-09-12 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Passing of Tribal Man in Africa

Download or read book The Passing of Tribal Man in Africa written by Peter Claus Wolfgang Gutkind and published by Brill Archive. This book was released on 1970 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Anthropology and Politics

Download or read book Anthropology and Politics written by Joan Vincent and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In considering how anthropologists have chosen to look at and write about politics, Joan Vincent contends that the anthropological study of politics is itself a historical process. Intended not only as a representation but also as a reinterpretation, her study arises from questioning accepted views and unexamined assumptions. This wide-ranging, cross-disciplinary work is a critical review of the anthropological study of politics in the English-speaking world from 1879 to the present, a counterpoint of text and context that describes for each of three eras both what anthropologists have said about politics and the national and international events that have shaped their interests and concerns. It is also an account of how intellectual, social, and political conditions influenced the discipline by conditioning both anthropological inquiry and the avenues of research supported by universities and governments. Finally, it is a study of the politics of anthropology itself, examining the survival of theses or schools of thought and the influence of certain individuals and departments.

Book Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society

Download or read book Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society written by American Ethnological Society and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Political Anthropology

Download or read book Political Anthropology written by Donald V Kurtz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of political anthropology is complicated by a breadth and depth of interests that include every kind of ethnographically and historically represented political community, and nearly every kind of recorded political practice, behavior, and organization. To make sense of this array of information, political anthropologists examine political topics and issues in the context of research paradigms that include structural-functionalism, pro-cessualism, political economy, political evolution, and, arguably, post-modernism. In Political Anthropology, Donald V. Kurtz examines how anthropologists think about politics, political organizations, and problems fundamental to political anthropology. He explores the ideas with which they address universal political concerns, the paradigms that direct political research by anthropologists, and political topics of special interest.

Book World Military History Annotated Bibliography

Download or read book World Military History Annotated Bibliography written by Barton Hacker and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2004-12-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Military institutions and methods of warfare in the non-Western world from antiquity through the early 20th century provide the chief subjects of this annotated bibliography of works published before 1967, supplementing an earlier volume covering works published 1967–1997.