Comparative political systems : studies in the politics of pre-industrial societies / edited by Ronald Cohen and John Middleton
1967, First Edition. Garden City, N.Y. : Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] the Natural History Press. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #446697
Physical description; xiv, 512 pages illustrations, maps 22 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The structure of social organization among the Eskimo / E.M. Weyer -- !Kung Bushman bands / Lorna Marshall -- The social and psychological aspects of chieftainship in a primitive tribe: the Nambikuara of northwestern Mato Grosso / Claude Lévi-Strauss -- Some aspects of political organization among the American aborigines / Robert H. Lowie -- The segmentary lineage: an organization of predatory expansion / Marshall D. Sahlins -- The governmental roles of associations among the Yakö / Daryll Forde -- The traditional authority system of the Navajos / Mary Shepardson -- Competitive leadership in Trobriand political organization / H.A. Powell -- Present-day politics in the New Guinea highlands / Marie Reay -- Nyakyusa age-villages / Monica Wilson -- "Clientship" among the Mandari of the southern Sudan / Jean Buxton -- The Mapuche Reservation as a political unit / L.C. Faron -- The traditional political system of the Yoruba / Peter C. Lloyd -- Nupe state and community / S.F. Nadel -- On Inca political structure / John V. Murra -- Checks on the abuse of political power in some African states: a preliminary framework for analysis / John Beattie -- Status rivalry and cultural evolution in Polynesia / Irving Goldman -- The civil-religious hierarchy in Mesoamerican communities: pre-Spanish background and colonial development / Pedro Carrasco -- Political change in the Kondmals / F.G. Bailey -- Transformation of social, political and cultural orders in modernization / S.N. Eisenstadt. Subjects; Political anthropology. Prehistoric peoples. Anthropology. Government, Primitive. Political anthropology Addresses, essays, lectures. Political organization Traditional societies Social anthropology. Primitive societies.
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