ISBN:
9781138928589
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (303 p)
Series Statement:
Routledge Library Editions: Social and Cultural Anthropology
Parallel Title:
Print version People of the Mediterranean : An Essay in Comparative Social Anthropology
DDC:
300.1209345
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
The Mediterranean countries have long attracted the attention of social anthropologists, from Frazer and Durkheim to the present day. In this volume, first published in 1977, Dr Davis reviews the extensive anthropological material collected and published by people who have worked in the area and claims that social anthropologists have a distinctive opportunity to compare similar kinds of institution and process in a variety of contexts - political, economic, bureaucratic, religious. He examines countries, tribes and communities stretching from Spain all the way round the Mediterranean and back
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; Contents; Dedication; Preface; 1 Introduction; I The distinctiveness of mediterranean anthropology; II Its failures; III Assumptions and procedures in this book; 2 Economic anthropology of mediterranean societies; I General survey; II Work on pastoralists; III On migration and labour migration; IV On agriculturalists; V On markets and merchants; VI On development and reform; VII Coda; Appendices; 3 Stratification; I The three main idioms of stratification and their relation to modes of political representation
Description / Table of Contents:
II Crude material differences in wealthIII Honour; IV Bureaucracy; V Class; VI Egalitarian systems; Appendices; 4 Politics; I The relation between modes of representation; II Class action; III Patronage; IV Class, bureaucracy and honour applied to three cases; Appendices; 5 Family and kinship; I Introductory survey; II Kinds of domestic group; III Division of households, dispersal of property and persons; IV Systems of kinship, patterns of marriage; V Godparenthood; VI Conclusion; Appendices; 6 Anthropologists and history in the mediterranean
Description / Table of Contents:
I Oxford and the anthropology of more complex societiesII Historic landscapes; III Social processes; IV Generations and configurations; V Continuities and differential survival; VI Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
