Tradition and Contract: The Problem of Social Order

ISBN-13: 9780202306902 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 154 str.

Elizabeth Colson

Opis

This book provides a vivid and informative view of life in traditional groups that are ordered mainly through the informal operation of everyday social relations, based on Colson's field research with North American Indians and with peoples in what is now Zambia.

Spis treści

1. An Explanatory Introduction 2. Lewis Henry Morgan and the Study of Political Systems 3. A Society of Equals: The Problem of Consensus 4. The Limits of Authority: Knowing the Rules 5. The Search for Utopia

O autorze

Elizabeth Colson