Age Class Systems - Social Institutions and Polities Based on Age

Klappentext This study of age class systems provides a way of making sense of the diversity of such systems. Zusammenfassung Bernardo Bernardi! one of the pioneers of the anthropological study of age class systems! provides a way of making sense of the diversity of such systems by analysing cross-culturally their common features and the pattern of their differences! and showing that they serve a general purpose for the organization of society and for the distribution and rotation of power. Inhaltsverzeichnis Translator's preface; Preface; 1. Characteristics of age class systems; 2. The anthropological study of age class systems; 3. Legitimation and power in age class systems; 4. The choice of ethnographic models; 5. The initiation model; 6. The initiation-transition model; 7. The generational model; 8. The residential model; 9. The regimental model; 10. The choreographic model; 11. Women and age class systems; 12. The ethnemic significance of the age class system; 13. History and changes in age class systems; Glossary; References; Index.

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• Autori: Bernardo Bernadi, Bernardo Bernardi Bernadi, Bernardo Bernardi
• Con la collaborazione di: Meyer Fortes (Editore), Edmund Leach (Editore), David I. Kertzer (Traduzione)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 27.11.1985
• EAN: 9780521314824
• ISBN: 978-0-521-31482-4
• Pagine: 208
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology; Seminar Series / Society for E
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche