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This sequel to Encounters with Nationalism explores the links in the past and in the present between anthropology and politics. It argues for rational, critical, and functionalist perspectives on the forms of social organization and the various political aspirations associated with them.

Table of Contents
Preface.

1. The Politics of Anthropology.

2. Origins of Society.

3. Culture, Constraint and Community.

4. Freud's Social Contract.

5. Past and Present.

6. James Frazer and Cambridge.

7. Pluralism and the Neolithic.

8. The Highway to Growth.

9. A Marxist Might-have-been.

10. War and Violence.

11. Tribe and State in the Middle East.

12. Maghreb as Mirror for Man.

13. Lawrence of Moravia.

14. Anthropology and Europe.

15. The Coming Fin de Millenaire.

16. The Uniqueness of Truth.

Acknowledgments.

Index.

Anthropology and Politics

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 26/10/1995
      ISBN13: 9780631199182, 978-0631199182
      ISBN10: 0631199187
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      Archaeology Politics and government

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This sequel to Encounters with Nationalism explores the links in the past and in the present between anthropology and politics. It argues for rational, critical, and functionalist perspectives on the forms of social organization and the various political aspirations associated with them.

      Table of Contents
      Preface.

      1. The Politics of Anthropology.

      2. Origins of Society.

      3. Culture, Constraint and Community.

      4. Freud's Social Contract.

      5. Past and Present.

      6. James Frazer and Cambridge.

      7. Pluralism and the Neolithic.

      8. The Highway to Growth.

      9. A Marxist Might-have-been.

      10. War and Violence.

      11. Tribe and State in the Middle East.

      12. Maghreb as Mirror for Man.

      13. Lawrence of Moravia.

      14. Anthropology and Europe.

      15. The Coming Fin de Millenaire.

      16. The Uniqueness of Truth.

      Acknowledgments.

      Index.

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