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Hierarchy

Persistence and Transformation in Social Formations

Edited by Knut Rio and Olaf H. Smedal

336 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-84545-493-7 $145.00/£107.00 / Hb / Published (December 2008)

ISBN  978-1-84545-490-6 $34.95/£27.95 / Pb / Published (November 2010)

eISBN 978-1-84545-883-6 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781845454937


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"This welcome volume collects 12 essays addressing problems in the analysis of sociocultural values and sociocultural hierarchy, in dialogue with ideas of Dumont."  ·  American Ethnologist

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Louis Dumont's concept of hierarchy continues to inspire social scientists. Using it as their starting point, the contributors to this volume introduce both fresh empirical material and new theoretical considerations. On the basis of diverse ethnographic contexts in Oceania, Asia, and the Middle East they challenge some current conceptions of hierarchical formations and reassess former debates - of post-colonial and neo-colonial agendas, ideas of "democratization" and "globalization," and expanding market economies - both with regard to new theoretical issues and the new world situation.

Knut M. Rio is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Vanuatu in the western Pacific and published The Power of Perspective: Social Ontology and Agency on Ambrym Island, Vanuatu (Berghahn Books, 2007).

Olaf H. Smedal is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He has conducted long-term fieldwork in Indonesia since the beginning of the 1980s: first among the Lom on Bangka (an island off Sumatra) and later among the Ngadha in Flores in eastern Indonesia. His research interests include social organization and kinship, symbolization, ritual, comparative epistemology, the history of anthropology and theory of science.

Subject: Theory and MethodologySociology
Area: Asia-Pacific


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