Complex Societies And Other Anthropological Essays
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Complex Societies And Other Anthropological Essays
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Author : Makhan Jha
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Complex Societies And Other Anthropological Essays written by Makhan Jha and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Buddhist shrines categories.
The Present Volume Throws Light On The Various Aspects Of The Complex Indian Society With Special Refenrece To The Sacred Complex Studies Of Hindu And Buddhist Sacred Centres Of India, Nepal And Thailand. Without Dust Jacket.
On The Evolution Of Complex Societies
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Author : William T. Sanders
language : en
Publisher: Undena Publications
Release Date : 1984
On The Evolution Of Complex Societies written by William T. Sanders and has been published by Undena Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Social Science categories.
Social Anthropology Of Complex Societies
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Author : Michael Banton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-08
Social Anthropology Of Complex Societies written by Michael Banton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-08 with Social Science categories.
This volume illustrates how much the study of social anthropologists has encompassed other, non-primitive societies: rural Italy, urban Africa, village politics in India and the smaller ex-colonial territories of Fiji and Mauritius are just some of the areas covered by the book. The position and contribution of British community studies is also examined, illustrating how micro-sociology can be made relevant to macro-sociology. Originally published 1966.
Two Dimensional Man
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Author : Abner Cohen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-03
Two Dimensional Man written by Abner Cohen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-03 with Social Science categories.
Central to this original study, first published in 1974, is that Political Man is also Symbolist Man, that man is two-dimensional. The book explores the possibilities of the systematic study of the dialectical interdependence between power relationships and symbolic action in modern, complex society. The discussion focuses on the processes by which interest groups, that cannot organise themselves formally, manipulate different types of symbolic formations to articulate a number of basic organisational functions: distinctiveness, communication, decision-making, authority, ideology and socialisation. The analysis is worked out in terms of specific case studies of different types of groupings, or ‘invisible organisations’ – ethnic, elitist, religious, ritually secret, cousinhood – which go through processes of cultural metamorphosis, shifting from one symbolic strategy to another, in response to changes in their circumstances. In conclusion, the discussion is brought to bear on the study of stratification in large-scale industrial society generally.
Society Against The State
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Author : Pierre Clastres
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-29
Society Against The State written by Pierre Clastres and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-09-29 with Philosophy categories.
In this seminal, founding work of political anthropology, Pierre Clastres takes on some of the most abiding and essential questions of human civilization: What is power? What is society? How, among all the possible modes of political organization, did we come to choose the monolithic State model and its accompanying regimes of coercion? As Clastres shows, other and different regimes do indeed exist, and they existed long before ours — regimes in which power, though it manifests itself everywhere, is nonetheless noncoercive. In such societies, political culture, and cultural practices generally, are not only not submissive to the State model, but they actively avert it, rendering impossible the very conditions in which coercive power and the State could arise. How then could our own “societies of the State” ever have arisen from these rich and complex stateless societies, and why? Clastres brilliantly and imaginatively addresses these questions, meditating on the peculiar shape and dynamics of so-called “primitive societies,” and especially on the discourses with which “civilized” (i.e., political, economic, literate) peoples have not ceased to reduce and contain them. He refutes outright the idea that the State is the ultimate and logical density of all societies. On the contrary, Clastres develops a whole alternate and always affirmative political technology based on values such as leisure, prestige, and generosity. Through individual essays he explores and deftly situates the anarchistic political and social roles of storytelling, homosexuality, jokes, ruinous gift-giving, and the torturous ritual marking of the body, placing them within an economy of power and desire very different from our own, one whose most fundamental goal is to celebrate life while rendering the rise of despotic power impossible. Though power itself is shown to be inseparable from the richest and most complex forms of social life, the State is seen as a specific but grotesque aberration peculiar only to certain societies, not least of which is our own. Not for sale in the U.K. and British Commonwealth, South Africa, Burma, Jordan, and Iraq.
Studying Contemporary Western Society
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Author : Margaret Mead
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2004
Studying Contemporary Western Society written by Margaret Mead and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Social Science categories.
Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures. This volume collects and presents a variety of her essays on research methodology relating to contemporary culture. Many of these essays were printed originally in limited circulation journals, research reports and books edited by others. They reflect Mead's continuing commitment to searching out methods for studying and extending the anthropologist's tools of investigation for use in complex societies. Essays on American and European societies, intergenerational relations, architecture and social space, industrialization, and interracial relations are included in this varied and exciting collection.
The Social Anthropology Of Complex Societies
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Author : Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth
language : en
Publisher: London : Tavistock Publications
Release Date : 1966
The Social Anthropology Of Complex Societies written by Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth and has been published by London : Tavistock Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Anthropology categories.
The Social Anthropology Of Complex Societies
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Author : Michael Banton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966
The Social Anthropology Of Complex Societies written by Michael Banton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Anthropology categories.
Culture And Society
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Author : George Peter Murdock
language : en
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Release Date : 2010-11-23
Culture And Society written by George Peter Murdock and has been published by University of Pittsburgh Pre this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-23 with Social Science categories.
Twenty four essays cover a broad range of topics in cultural anthropology, and represent the best writings of George Peter Murdock and reveal his theoretical orientation and his many landmark contributions to the field.
Life Among The Anthros And Other Essays
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Author : Clifford Geertz
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2012-08-26
Life Among The Anthros And Other Essays written by Clifford Geertz and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-26 with Social Science categories.
An incomparable retrospective of writings by one of the world's great anthropologists Clifford Geertz (1926–2006) was perhaps the most influential anthropologist of our time, but his influence extended far beyond his field to encompass all facets of contemporary life. Nowhere were his gifts for directness, humor, and steady revelation more evident than in the pages of the New York Review of Books, where for nearly four decades he shared his acute vision of the world in all its peculiarity. This book brings together the finest of Geertz's review essays from the New York Review along with a representative selection of later pieces written at the height of his powers, some that first appeared in periodicals such as Dissent, others never before published. This collection exemplifies Geertz's extraordinary range of concerns, beginning with his first essay for the Review in 1967, in which he reviews, with muffled hilarity, the anthropologist Bronislaw Malinowski. This book includes Geertz's unflinching meditations on Western academia's encounters with the non-Western world, and on the shifting and clashing places of societies in the world generally. Geertz writes eloquently and arrestingly about such major figures as Gandhi, Foucault, and Genet, and on topics as varied as Islam, globalization, feminism, and the failings of nationalism. Life among the Anthros and Other Essays demonstrates Geertz's uncommon wisdom and consistently keen and hopeful humor, confirming his status as one of our most important and enduring public intellectuals.