{"product_id":"from-equality-to-inequality-9781442611221","title":"From Equality to Inequality","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe egalitarian society once enjoyed by the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia is quickly changing. Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh, Csilla Dallos studied and interpreted social change in order to better understand the processes leading to inequality and the concurrent development of social complexity within a community.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eFrom Equality to Inequality\u003c\/em\u003e provides rich empirical data on the factors within a community that significantly affect the development of inequality, including the effects of sedentism, integration, leadership competition, self-aggrandizement, marginalization, and feuding kinship groups. In this case study, Dallos argues that in order to understand emerging inequality, anthropologists and social scientists need to revisit current conceptions of politics in small-scale egalitarian societies. Offering a new model of developing social inequality that is congruent with the principles of complexity theory, \u003cem\u003eFrom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIllustrations       Figures and Maps       Tables       Preface and Acknowledgments         * Equality,  Inequality, and Changing Hunter-Gatherers    * Interethnic  Trade and the Social Organization of Pre-resettlement Lanoh    * Changing  Context of Interethnic Relations: From Power Balance to Power Imbalance    * Withdrawal  from Contact and the Development of Village Identity    * Leadership  Competition, Self-Aggrandizement, and Inequality    * Pre-resettlement  Organization, Village Integration, and Self-Aggrandizing Strategies    * Understanding  Equality and Inequality in Small-Scale Societies     Language Notes and Glossary        Notes       References   Index\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040020562263,"sku":"9781442611221","price":30.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442611221.jpg?v=1750945536","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-equality-to-inequality-9781442611221","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}