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.

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

By Csilla Dallos

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