Csilla Dallos

From Equality to Inequality

Social Change Among Newly Sedentary Lanoh Hunter-Gatherer Traders of Peninsular Malaysia

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Produktbeschreibung

Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia, 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781442611221
• ISBN-10: 1442611227
• Artikelnr.: 29957380

Autorenporträt

Csilla Dallos is an associate professor in the Department of Anthropology at St. Thomas University.

Inhaltsangabe

Illustrations
Figures and Maps
Tables
Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Equality, Inequality, and Changing Hunter-Gatherers
2. Interethnic Trade and the Social Organization of Pre-resettlement
Lanoh
3. Changing Context of Interethnic Relations: From Power Balance to
Power Imbalance
4. Withdrawal from Contact and the Development of Village Identity
5. Leadership Competition, Self-Aggrandizement, and Inequality
6. Pre-resettlement Organization, Village Integration, and
Self-Aggrandizing Strategies
7. Understanding Equality and Inequality in Small-Scale Societies
Language Notes and Glossary
Notes
References
Index