From equality to inequality: social change among newly sedentary Lanoh hunter-gatherer traders of Peninsular Malaysia
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Main Author: Dallos, Csilla 1963- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto [u.a.] Univ. of Toronto Press 2011
Series:Anthropological horizons
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Item Description:Literaturverz. S. [293] - 328
"The egalitarian society once enjoyed by the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia is quickly changing. Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh, Csilla Dallos studied and interpreted social change in order to better understand the processes leading to inequality and the concurrent development of social complexity within a community. -- From Equality to Inequality provides rich empirical data on the factors within a community that significantly affect the development of inequality, including the effects of sedentism, integration, leadership competition, self-aggrandizement, marginalization, and feuding kinship groups. In this case study, Dallos argues that in order to understand emerging inequality, anthropologists and social scientists need to revisit current conceptions of politics in small-scale egalitarian societies. Offering a new model of developing social inequality that is congruent with the principles of complexity theory, From Equality to Inequality is a sterling example of how anthropological practice can further our general understanding of human behaviour."--pub. desc.
Physical Description:XIV, 336 S. Ill., Kt. 24 cm
ISBN:9781442642225
144264222X
9781442611221
1442611227

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