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Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society (Hardcover)
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Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society (Hardcover)
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What can we learn from tribal societies about the ways in which, in
a variety of social settings, groups of men resolve their conflicts
with other men? In order to answer this question, Politics, Law and
Ritual in Tribal Society compares nearly forty case study
societies, most of them in Africa, in their reconstructed
pre-colonial tribal condition, comparing their small-scale social
relations to their large-scale social context. At the outset
Gluckman explains to the reader that custom is the focus of
interest of all types of anthropology. Yet his approach manifests a
strong interest in economy, politics, and social relationships.In
the volume, Max Gluckman offers a succinct version of a lifetime of
opinionated analysis. This material is organized by theme and the
ethnographic examples appear as brief illustrations of theoretical
questions. Discussed here also is the relation between disputes and
struggles for power within the context of mechanisms of social
control and stability.In addition, Gluckman presents a step-by-step
survey of the cumulative development of the anthropological
analysis of tribal institutions, from the nineteenth century to the
present, and supports the argument that anthropology is a science
rather than an art. The new masterful introduction by Sally Falk
Moore, along with a new postscript of Gluckman's professional
activities and publications, provides newcomers to the work of
Gluckman with deep insights into the contents as well as contexts
within which the great anthropologist worked.
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