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Political organization. Political anthropology

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  • Children's Knowledge, Beliefs and Feelings about Nby Martyn Barrett

    Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 70.00

    This book provides a state-of-the-art account of how people's subjective sense of national identity, and attitudes towards countries and national groups, develop through the course of childhood and adolescence. It offers a comprehensive review of the research which has been conducted into: . children's understanding of nations as geographical territories... more...

  • The Political Landscapeby Adam T. Smith

    University of California Press 2003; US$ 15.95

    How do landscapes?defined in the broadest sense to incorporate the physical contours of the built environment, the aesthetics of form, and the imaginative reflections of spatial representations?contribute to the making of politics? Shifting through the archaeological, epigraphic, and artistic remains of early complex societies, this provocative and... more...

  • Race and Nationby Paul Spickard

    Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 46.95

    Race and Nation is the first book to compare the racial and ethnic systems that have developed around the world. It is the creation of nineteen scholars who are experts on locations as far-flung as China, Jamaica, Eritrea, Brazil, Germany, Punjab, and South Africa. The contributing historians, sociologists, anthropologists, political scientists,... more...

  • Land and Territorialityby Michael Saltman

    Bloomsbury Publishing 2002; US$ 109.95

    In the past, territorial conflict usually involved major powers seeking hegemony over strategic spaces and resources. More recently, however, the decline of opposing global power blocs has elevated ethnicity to a prime cause of conflict over land. This book considers the multiple roles ethnicity plays in fostering territorial conflicts, both violent... more...

  • The Sociology of Ethnicityby Sinisa Malesevic

    SAGE Publications 2004; US$ 66.00

    Provides a coherent theoretical framework for the sociological analysis of ethnicity more...

  • Race and Social Analysisby Caroline Knowles

    SAGE Publications 2003; US$ 60.00

    'This book is well researched and highly accessible. It is both a useful and much needed addition to the literature on race and social research' - Ethnic and Racial Studies 'The book is well laid out with glossaries of significant new terms and summaries of key points at the end of each chapter, extensive notes and a very useful bibliography.... more...

  • Choctaw Nationby Valerie Lambert

    University of Nebraska Press 2007; US$ 45.00

    Choctaw Nation is a story of tribal nation building in the modern era. Valerie Lambert treats nation-building projects as nothing new to the Choctaws of southeastern Oklahoma, who have responded to a number of hard-hitting assaults on Choctaw sovereignty and nationhood by rebuilding their tribal nation. more...

  • Public Policy and Ethnicityby Dr Elizabeth Rata; Professor Roger Openshaw

    Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 100.00

    Has ethnicity become institutionalized as a political category? Drawing on international studies, including New Zealand, the book shows that this process of public policymaking creates artificial divisions that can become permanent and detrimental as well as being at odds with the social fluidity of modern societies. Preface by Jonathan Friedman. more...

  • Kingshipby Francis Oakley

    Wiley 2008; US$ 115.95

    From despots to powerless figureheads, and from the Neolithic era to the present, this book traces the history of kingship around the world and the tenacity of its connection with the sacred. Considers the many forms that kingship took during this period, including: the Pharaohs of ancient Egypt; the emperors of Japan; the Maya rulers of Mesoamerica;... more...

  • Kinship and Demographic Behavior in the Pastby Tommy Bengtsson; Geraldine P. Mineau

    Springer 2008; US$ 79.99

    What is the influence of family and kinship networks on fertility, marriage, migration and mortality? Population scientists have studied the relationship between families, both immediate and extended, and demographic behavior for many years. This volume highlights the convergence of research by a group of demographers, economic historians, historians,... more...