The Politics of Egalitarianism,9781845451141

The Politics of Egalitarianism

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ISBN13: 9781845451141
ISBN10: 1845451147
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-03-29
Publisher(s): Berghahn Books
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Summary

This collection of essays, written in honor of prominent anthropologist Richard B. Lee, defines a range of persistent problems that deeply affect the majority of the world's cultures. Lee remains at the forefront of anthropologists concerned with understanding and acting upon issues of indigenous rights, the impact of colonialism and postcolonial state formation on local communities and cultures, how and why cultures change, what the history and politics of egalitarian societies reveal about issues of "human nature" or "social evolution," and how various peoples around the world are responding to, and resisting, the impact of global forces.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1(20)
Jacqueline Solway
Part I: The Politics and Practices of Egalitarianism
All People Are (Not) Good
21(10)
Bruce G. Trigger
Community, State, and Questions of Social Evolution in Karl Marx's Ethnological Notebooks
31(22)
Christine Ward Gailey
Subtle Matters of Theory and Emphasis: Richard Lee and Controversies about Foraging Peoples
53(12)
Thomas C. Patterson
``The Original Affluent Society'': Four Decades On
65(14)
Jacqueline Solway
The Original Affluent Society
79(20)
Marshall Sahlins
On the Politics of Being Jewish in a Multiracial State
99(20)
Karen Brodkin
Part II: The Kalahari Then and Now
The Lion/Bushman Relationship In Nyae Nyae in the 1950s: A Relationship Crafted in the Old Why
119(12)
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
The Kalahari Peoples Fund: The Activist Legacy of the Harvard Kalahari Research Group
131(18)
Megan Biesele
Land, Livestock, and Leadership among the Ju/hoansi San of North-Western Botswana
149(10)
Robert K. Hitchcock
Contemporary Bushman Art, Identity Politics, and the Primitivism Discourse
159(30)
Mathias Guenther
Class, Culture, and Recognition: San Farm Workers and Indigenous Identities
189(16)
Renee Sylvain
The Other Side of Development: HIV/AIDS among Men and Women in Ju/'hoansi Villages
205(18)
Ida Susser
Part III: Richard Borshay Lee: An Appreciation
Richard B. Lee and Company: A Kalahari Chronicle, 1963--2000
223(6)
Jacqueline Solway
Richard B. Lee: The Politics, Art, and Science of Anthropology
229(14)
Christine Ward Gailey
Richard Borshay Lee: Selected Bibliography 243(6)
Jacqueline Solway
Notes on Contributors 249(4)
Index 253

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