Hierarchy : persistence and transformation in social formations /: persistence and transformation in social formations. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Knut M. Rio and Olaf H. Smedal.
• Other Names: Rio, Knut Mikjel; Smedal, Olaf H
• Contents: Hierarchy and Its Alternatives: An Introduction to Movements of Totalization and Detotalization / Knut M. Rio and Olaf H. Smedal -- Conversion, Hierarchy, and Cultural Change: Value and Syncretism in the Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity / Joel Robbins -- Gender and Value: Conceptualizing Social Forms on Ambrym, Vanuatu / Annelin Eriksen -- Can a Hierarchical Religion Survive without Its Center? Caodaism, Colonialism, and Exile / Janet Hoskins -- The Headless State in Inner Asia: Reconsidering Kinship Society and the Discourse of Tribalism / David Sneath -- The Perfect Sovereign: The Sacralized Power of the Ottoman Sultan / Kjetil Fosshagen -- Marriage, Rank, and Politics in Hawaii / Valerio Valeri -- Polynesian Conceptions of Sociality: A Dynamic Field of Hierarchical Encompassment / Ingjerd Hoëm -- On the Value of the Beast or the Limit of Money: Notes on the Meaning of Marriage Prestations among the Ngadha, Central Flores (Indonesia) / Olaf H. Smedal -- Hierarchy Is not Inequality-in Polynesia, for Instance / Serge Tcherkézoff -- Hierarchy and Power: A Comparative Attempt under Asymmetrical Lines / André Iteanu -- Afterword: On Dumont's Relentless Comparativism / Frederick H. Damon.
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (379 pages)
• Subjects: 305.5/209; Hierarchies -- Case studies; Power (Social sciences) -- Case studies; Elite (Social sciences) -- Case studies; Democracy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Social Classes; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General; Democracy; Elite (Social sciences); Hierarchies; Power (Social sciences); Elite; Ethnosoziologie; Hierarchie; Macht; Electronic books; Case studies
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845458836; 1845458834
• Related ISBNs: 9781845454937; 1845454936
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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