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In this definitive history of the evolution of the Com- munist
Party in America--from its early background through its founding in
1919 to its emergence as a legal entity in the 1920s--Theodore
Draper traces the native and foreign strains that comprised the
party. He emphasizes its shifting policies and secrets as well as
its open activities. He makes clear how the party in its infancy
"was transformed from a new expression of American radicalism to
the American appendage of a Russian revolutionary power," a fact
that Draper develops in his succeeding volume, American Communism
and Soviet Russia. In his special, prescient way, Theodore Draper
himself had the final words on American Communism: "It is like a
museum of radical politics. In its various stages, it has virtually
been all things to all men... There are many ways of trying to
understand such a movement, but the first task is historical. In
some respects, there is no other way to understand it, or at least
to avoid seriously misunderstanding it. Every other approach tends
to be static, one-sided or unbalanced." Draper correctly notes that
the formative period of the American Communist movement has
remained a largely untold and even unknown story. In part, the
reasons for this are that the Communist movement, although a child
of the West, grew to power in the Soviet East. But Draper rescues
this chapter with deep appreciation for the fact that communism was
not something that happened just in Russia, but also in the United
States. This is a must read for scholars and laypersons alike. This
volume is conceived as an independent and self-contained study of
the American Communist movement. Draper correctly notes that the
formative period is largely untold and even unknown. In part, the
reasons for this are that the Communist movement, although a child
of the West, grew to power in the Soviet East. Draper appreciates
the fact that communism was not something that happened only in
Russia, but also took place in the United States. That experience
is the focus of this volume.
Politics: a static network of structural and functional models? Is
it a "given" set of rules, statuses and procedures? Or a dynamic
process, a continuum related to the past as well as to the present
and continually influenced by pressures within and outside of a
society? Taking the latter view of the nature of political
behavior, the editors of Political Anthropology here present an
original compilation of papers that thoroughly assess contemporary
anthropological research and theory on political phenomena and
explore the sources and maintenance of political power. One of the
aims of this book is to take tentative steps toward resolving the
developing crisis by investigating the structure of political
action revealed in empirical data. Within the general framework of
political dynamics the book uses processes such as decision making,
the judicial process, the disturbance and settlement of policy
issues, the application of sanctions, and the outcome of disputes
among other things. These items will find their places as
components of phases in the major sequence. Investigating societies
from Africa to Alaska, politics is shown to be a global
phenomenon--a "human process of action" centering on the conflict
between the "common good" and "interests of groups," and on the
resolution or extension of that conflict by the religious,
structural, sociocultural, and psychological pressures within and
external to a social grouping. Essential reading for anyone
concerned with the nature of political process, Political
Anthropology presents a fresh, important and comprehensive overview
of the "wind of change" currently abroad in the study of political
behavior.
Politics: a static network of structural and functional models? Is
it a "given" set of rules, statuses and procedures? Or a "dynamic
process, " a continuum related to the past as well as to the
present and continually influenced by pressures within and outside
of a society? Taking the latter view of the nature of political
behavior, the editors of "Political Anthropology" here present an
original compilation of papers that thoroughly assess contemporary
anthropological research and theory on political phenomena and
explore the sources and maintenance of political power. One of the
aims of this book is to take tentative steps toward resolving the
developing crisis by investigating the structure of political
action revealed in empirical data. Within the general framework of
political dynamics the book uses processes such as decision making,
the judicial process, the disturbance and settlement of policy
issues, the application of sanctions, and the outcome of disputes
among other things. These items will find their places as
components of phases in the major sequence. Investigating societies
from Africa to Alaska, politics is shown to be a global
phenomenon--a "human process of action" centering on the conflict
between the "common good" and "interests of groups," and on the
resolution or extension of that conflict by the religious,
structural, sociocultural, and psychological pressures within and
external to a social grouping. Essential reading for anyone
concerned with the nature of political process, "Political
Anthropology" presents a fresh, important and comprehensive
overview of the "wind of change" currently abroad in the study of
political behavior. "Marc J. Swartz" has been professor of
anthropology at the University of California, San Diego since 1969.
He recently retired in 2005. His interests included various
branches of anthropology such as social, political, and
psychological. In the past he has done fieldwork in Micronesia,
Tanzania, and Kenya. "Victor W. Turner" (1920-1983) received his
Ph.D. at Manchester University where he became a Senior Fellow and
Lecturer. After leaving Manchester he moved to Stanford University,
where he became a fellow at the Center for Advanced Behavior
Sciences. In 1964 he traveled to Cornell University where he stayed
for four before moving onto the University of Chicago. There he was
Professor of Social Thought and Anthropology. While at Chicago he
joined the Committee on Social Thought and he began a long-term
study in the area of contemporary Christian pilgrimage. His final
position was at the University of Virginia where he was the William
R. Kenan professor of Anthropology. "Arthur Tuden" was Professor of
Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh. He was the long-term editor
of the Journal "Ethnology" and he has written many articles as well
as authored, co-authored, or edited six books. He did field
research in areas of the Ukraine, Virgin Islands, Rhedosia, and
parts of Pennsylvania's own Carpatho-Rus community.
In this definitive history of the evolution of the Com- munist
Party in America--from its early background through its founding in
1919 to its emergence as a legal entity in the 1920s--Theodore
Draper traces the native and foreign strains that comprised the
party. He emphasizes its shifting policies and secrets as well as
its open activities. He makes clear how the party in its infancy
"was transformed from a new expression of American radicalism to
the American appendage of a Russian revolutionary power," a fact
that Draper develops in his succeeding volume, "American Communism
and Soviet Russia." In his special, prescient way, Theodore Draper
himself had the final words on American Communism: "It is like a
museum of radical politics. In its various stages, it has virtually
been all things to all men... There are many ways of trying to
understand such a movement, but the first task is historical. In
some respects, there is no other way to understand it, or at least
to avoid seriously misunderstanding it. Every other approach tends
to be static, one-sided or unbalanced." Draper correctly notes that
the formative period of the American Communist movement has
remained a largely untold and even unknown story. In part, the
reasons for this are that the Communist movement, although a child
of the West, grew to power in the Soviet East. But Draper rescues
this chapter with deep appreciation for the fact that communism was
not something that happened just in Russia, but also in the United
States. This is a must read for scholars and laypersons alike. This
volume is conceived as an independent and self-contained study of
the American Communist movement. Draper correctly notes that the
formative period is largely untold and even unknown. In part, the
reasons for this are that the Communist movement, although a child
of the West, grew to power in the Soviet East. Draper appreciates
the fact that communism was not something that happened only in
Russia, but also took place in the United States. That experience
is the focus of this volume.
Fourteen authors, including many of the best-known scholars in the
field, explore how people actually experience their culture and how
those experiences are expressed in forms as varied as narrative,
literary work, theater, carnival, ritual, reminiscence, and life
review. Their studies will be of special interest for anyone
working in anthropological theory, symbolic anthropology, and
contemporary social and cultural anthropology, and useful as well
for other social scientists, folklorists, literary theorists, and
philosophers.
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