"This welcome volume collects 12 essays addressing problems in the
analysis of sociocultural values and sociocultural hierarchy, in
dialogue with ideas of Dumont." . American Ethnologist
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.
Knut M. Rio is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the
University of Bergen. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in
Vanuatu in the western Pacific and published The Power of
Perspective: Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu
(Berghahn Books, 2007).
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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