From Equality to Inequality - Social Change Among Newly Sedentary Lanoh Hunter Gatherer Traders of

Informationen zum Autor By Csilla Dallos Klappentext Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia, 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. Zusammenfassung Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia! 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Illustrations Figures and Maps Tables Preface and Acknowledgments Equality, Inequality, and Changing Hunter-Gatherers Interethnic Trade and the Social Organization of Pre-resettlement Lanoh Changing Context of Interethnic Relations: From Power Balance to Power Imbalance Withdrawal from Contact and the Development of Village Identity Leadership Competition, Self-Aggrandizement, and Inequality Pre-resettlement Organization, Village Integration, and Self-Aggrandizing Strategies Understanding Equality and Inequality in Small-Scale Societies Language Notes and Glossary Notes References Index

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• Authors: Csilla Dallos, Not Available
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.04.2011
• EAN: 9781442642225
• ISBN: 978-1-4426-4222-5
• No. of pages: 368
• Series: Anthropological Horizons; Anthropological Horizons (Univ; Anthropological Horizons; Anthropological Horizons (Univ
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories