Political Anthropology

Power And Paradigms

Donald V Kurtz

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Westview Press
25 August 2001

Society & culture: general; Anthropology; Politics & government; Political science & theory

Politics is all about power, and power- its composition, creation, and use- pervades this unique and clearly written assessment of the paradigms by which anthropologists explain and understand political phenomena. In

Political Anthropology , Donald V. Kurtz examines how anthropologists think about politics, political organizations, and problems fundamental to political anthropology. He explores the ideas by which they address universal political concerns, the paradigms that direct political research by anthropologists, and political topics of special interest. The universal political concerns include ideas related to political power, leadership, the legitimation of authority, and rules that regulate succession to political statuses and offices. Kurtz relates these concerns to the paradigms that provide the research strategies anthropologists use to examine political phenomena he investigates structural functionalism, processualism, political economy, and political evolution. Postmodernism provides a fifth research strategy characterized by an eclectic approach to politics that suggests its paradigmatic status is still unformulated. The analysis concludes with a consideration of ideas related to state formations.

By: Donald V Kurtz
Imprint: Westview Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780813338040
ISBN 10: 0813338042
Pages: 259
Publication Date: 25 August 2001
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction -- Paradigms and Science -- The Paradigms of Political Anthropology -- Political Essentials -- Political Power -- Political Leaders and Authorities -- Succession to Political Status and Office and the Legitimation of Political Authority -- Paradigms and Topics of Political Anthropology -- The Structural-Functional Paradigm -- The Politics of Kinship -- The Processual Paradigm -- The Paradigm of Political Economy -- The Paradigm of Political Evolution -- The Paradigm of Political Evolution -- Anthropology and the Study of the State -- The Postmodern Paradigm of Political Anthropology

Donald V. Kurtz is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and has current affiliations with departments of Anthropology at the University of Texas - San Antonio and Southwest Texas State University. He is the author of The Politics of a Poverty Habitat, Contradictions and Conflict: A Dialectical Political Anthropology of a University in Western India, and Hegemony and Anthropology: Gramsci, Exegetes, Transformations.

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Political Anthropology

Power And Paradigms

Donald V Kurtz

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