The Politics of Egalitarianism: Theory and Practice / Edition 1

by Jacqueline Solway

Overview

Based on sessions at the May 2001 joint meetings of the Canadian Anthropology Society and American Ethnological Association.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845451141
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	03/01/2006
Series:	Methodology & History in Anthropology , #14
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Jacqueline Solway is associate professor of International Development Studies and Anthropology at Trent University.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Jacqueline Solway

PART I: THE POLITICS AND PRACTICES OF EGALITARIANISM

Chapter 1. All People Are (Not) Good
Bruce G. Trigger

Chapter 2. Community, State, and Questions of Social Evolution in Karl Marx's Ethnological Notebooks
Christine Ward Gailey

Chapter 3. Subtle Matters of Theory and Emphasis: Richard Lee and Controversies about Foraging Peoples
Thomas C. Patterson

Chapter 4. "The Orginal Affluent Society": Four Decades On
Jacqueline Solway

Chapter 5. The Original Affluent Society
Marshall Sahlins

Chapter 6. On the Politics of Being Jewish in a Multiracial State
Karen Brodkin

PART II: THE KALAHARI THEN AND NOW

Chapter 7. The Lion/Bushman Relationship in Nyae Nyae in the 1950s: A Relationship Crafted in the Old Way
Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Chapter 8. The Kalahari Peoples Fund: The Activist Legacy of the Harvard Kalahari Research Group
Megan Biesele

Chapter 9. Land, Livestock, and Leadership among the Ju/'hoansi San of North-Western Botswana
Robert K. Hitchcock

Chapter 10. Contemporary Bushman Art, Identity, Politics, and the Primitivism Discourse
Mathias Guenther

Chapter 11. Class, Culture, and Recognition: San Fam Workers and Indigenous Identities
Renée Sylvain

Chapter 12. The Other Side of Development: HIV/AIDS among Men and Women in Ju/;hoansi Villages
Ida Susser

PART III: RICHARD BORSHAY LEE: AN APPRECIATION

Chapter 13. Richard B. Lee and Company: A Kalahari Chronicle, 1963-2000
Compiled by Jacqueline Solway

Chapter 14. Richard B. Lee: The Politics, Art, and Science of Anthropology
Christine Ward Gailey

Richard Borshay Lee: Selected Bibliography
Compiled by Jacqueline Solway

Notes on Contributors
Index

Editorial Reviews

"Solway does an admirable job in her introduction, describing the three intellectual-cum-activist projects which underlie the collection... Its most significant contribution for those already familiar with the San literature lies in expanding the pool of recent analyses of San identity politics, and in documenting the rise and challenges facing the San-owned and San-oriented NGOs... [it] is also a good reference source for a broader readership seeing an overview of Lee's intellectual legacy and its trajectories." - Anthropos

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