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The Politics of Egalitarianism: Theory and Practice

The Politics of Egalitarianism: Theory and Practice

Solway, Jacqueline

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Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology, Book 14

AnthropologyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1845451155
ISBN13: 9781845451158
Publisher: Berghahn Books Inc
Published: Mar 1 2006
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.57 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

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.

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