J. Davis

People of the Mediterranean

An Essay in Comparative Social Anthropology

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 along the coast of North Africa. In chapters on economics, stratification, politics, family and kinship, he has found it possible and sensible to set Albanian and Berber tribesmen beside each other, and to discuss Italian and Lebanese peasants in the same paragraph. The result is both a survey of the anthropological material and an essay in comparison, founded on a critique of the work of his predecessors and colleagues. The last chapter is an account of the uses anthropologists have made of the historical sources available to them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781138928589
• ISBN-10: 1138928585
• Artikelnr.: 42407514

Autorenporträt

J. Davis

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 1.1. The Distinctiveness of Mediterranean Anthropology 1.2.
Its Failures 1.3. Assumptions and Procedures in This Book 2. Economic
Anthropology of Mediterranean Societies 2.1. General Survey 2.2. Work on
Pastoralists 2.3. On Migration and Labour Migration 2.4. On
Agriculturalists 2.5. On Markets and Merchants 2.6. On Development and
Reform 2.7. Coda 3. Stratification 3.1. The Three Main Idioms of
Stratification and Their Relation to Modes of Political Representation 3.2.
Crude Material Differences in Wealth 3.3. Honour 3.4. Bureaucracy 3.5.
Class 3.6. Egalitarian Systems 4. Politics 4.1. The Relation between Modes
of Representation 4.2. Class Action 4.3. Patronage 4.4. Class, Bureaucracy
and Honour Applied to Three Cases 5. Family and Kinship 5.1. Introductory
Survey 5.2. Kinds of Domestic Group 5.3. Division of Households, Dispersal
of Property and Persons 5.4. Systems of Kinship, Patterns of Marriage 5.5.
Godparenthood 6. Anthropologists and History in the Mediterranean 6.1.
Oxford and the Anthropology of More Complex Societies 6.2. Historic
Landscapes 6.3. Social Processes 6.4. Generations and Configurations 6.5.
Continuities and Differential Survival