The politics of egalitarianism : theory and practice

Solway, Jacqueline S., (editor.). American Ethnological Society. (Added Author). Canadian Anthropology Society. (Added Author).

Summary: Annotation 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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ISBN: 9781845451158
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Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 260 pages) : illustrations.
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Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books, 2006.
Copyright: �2006

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General Note:	Based on sessions at the May 2001 joint meetings of the Canadian Anthropology Society and American Ethnological Association. CatMonthString:may.22 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	All people are (not) good / Bruce G. Trigger -- Community, state, and questions of social evolution in Karl Marx's Ethnological notebooks / Christine Ward Gailey -- Subtle matters of theory and emphasis : Richard Lee and controversies about foraging peoples / Thomas C. Patterson -- "The original affluent society" : four decades on / Jacqueline Solway -- The original affluent society / Marshall Sahlins -- On the politics of being Jewish in a multiracial state / Karen Brodkin -- The lion/bushman relationship in Nyae Nyae in the 1950s : a relationship crafted in the old way / Elizabeth Marshall Thomas -- The Kalahari Peoples Fund : the activist legacy of the Harvard Kalahari Research Group / Megan Biesele -- Land, livestock, and leadership among the Ju/'hoansi San of north-western Botswana / Robert K. Hitchcock -- Contemporary bushman art, identity politics, and the primitivism discourse / Mathias Guenther -- Class, culture, and recognition : San farm workers and indigenous identities / Ren�ee Sylvain -- The other side of development : HIV/AIDS among men and women in Ju/'hoansi villages / Ida Susser -- Richard B. Lee and company : a Kalahari chronicle, 1963-2000 / compiled by Jacqueline Solway -- Richard B. Lee : the politics, art, and science of anthropology / Christine Ward Gailey -- Richard Borshay Lee : selected bibliography / compiled by Jacqueline Solway.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
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Source of Description Note:	Print version.