Hierarchy : persistence and transformation in social formations /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Description:	379 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Hierarchies -- Case studies. Power (Social sciences) -- Case studies. Elite (Social sciences) -- Case studies. Democracy. Democracy. Elite (Social sciences) Hierarchies. Power (Social sciences) Case studies.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7628991

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Other authors / contributors:	Rio, Knut Mikjel. Smedal, Olaf H.
ISBN:	9781845454937 (hardback : alk. paper) 1845454936 (hardback : alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1. Hierarchy and Its Alternatives: An Introduction to Movements of Totalization and Detotalization
Chapter 2. Conversion, Hierarchy, and Cultural Change: Value and Syncretism in the Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity
Chapter 3. Gender and Value: Conceptualizing Social Forms on Ambrym, Vanuatu
Chapter 4. Can a Hierarchical Religion Survive without Its Center? Caodaism, Colonialism, and Exile
Chapter 5. The Headless State in Inner Asia: Reconsidering Kinship Society and the Discourse of Tribalism
Chapter 6. The Perfect Sovereign: The Sacralized Power of the Ottoman Sultan
Chapter 7. Marriage, Rank, and Politics in Hawaii
Chapter 8. Polynesian Conceptions of Sociality: A Dynamic Field of Hierarchical Encompassment
Chapter 9. On the Value of the Beast or the Limit of Money: Notes on the Meaning of Marriage Prestations among the Ngadha, Central Flores (Indonesia)
Chapter 10. Hierarchy Is not Inequality-in Polynesia, for Instance
Chapter 11. Hierarchy and Power: A Comparative Attempt under Asymmetrical Lines
Afterword: On Dumont's Relentless Comparativism
Notes on Contributors
Index

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