Hierarchy: Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations - Brossura

 
9781845454906: Hierarchy: Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations
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ISBN 10: 1845454901 ISBN 13: 9781845454906
Casa editrice: Berghahn Books, 2010

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Louis Dumont's concept of hierarchy continues to inspire social scientists. Using it as their starting point, the contributors to this volume introduce both fresh empirical material and new theoretical considerations. On the basis of diverse ethnographic contexts in Oceania, Asia, and the Middle East they challenge some current conceptions of hierarchical formations and reassess former debates - of post-colonial and neo-colonial agendas, ideas of "democratization" and "globalization," and expanding market economies - both with regard to new theoretical issues and the new world situation.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Olaf H. Smedal is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Indonesia since the beginning of the 1980s: first among the Lom on Bangka (an island off Sumatra) and later among the Ngadha in Flores in eastern Indonesia. His research interests include social organization and kinship, symbolization, ritual, comparative epistemology, the history of anthropology and theory of science.

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Editore
Berghahn Books
Data di pubblicazione
2010
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
1845454901
ISBN 13 
9781845454906
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
379
Redattore
Rio Knut M., Smedal Olaf H.
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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