Contiene: The construction of political anthropology - The significance of political anthropology - The development of political anthropology - Methods and tendencies in political anthroplogy - The political sphere - Maximalists and minimalists - Confrontation of methods - Political power and necessity - Political relations and forms - Kinship and power - Kinship and lineages - The lineal dynamic - Aspects of segmentay power - Social stratification and power - Order and subordination - Forms of social stratification and power - Feudality and relations of dependence - Religion and power - The sacred bases of power - Strategy of the sacred and strategy of power - Aspects of the traditional state - The questioning of the concept of the state - The uncertainties of political anthropology - Hypotheses on the origin of the state - Tradition and modernity - Agents and aspects of political change - The dynamic of traditionalism and modernity.

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