By Michael Banton
Glossy political anthropology started in 1940 with the 1st systematic comparative reports of ways primitive societies maintained legislation and order. the point of interest used to be on govt and the presence or absence of country associations. lately, curiosity has shifted to the examine of strength, to studying the manipulation of political kin, and to the duty of elaborating a category of governmental platforms that may throw mild at the very important difficulties for examine.
First released in 1965.
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Political Systems and the Distribution of Power
Smooth political anthropology started in 1940 with the 1st systematic comparative experiences of the way primitive societies maintained legislations and order. the point of interest used to be on executive and the presence or absence of country associations. lately, curiosity has shifted to the learn of energy, to analyzing the manipulation of political family members, and to the duty of elaborating a category of governmental structures that may throw mild at the vital difficulties for learn.
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The Individual casts his vote as an atom of society, not as a living cell in organic relationship with other living cells. It is not living together that is expressed and represented in the institutions and processes of democracy, but an abstracted individual' (pp. 47-48). The argument is supported by an account of what is supposed to have been done in ancient India: 'It is interesting to recall here that in the Indian village comluunities there were no elections to executive offices on the present majority-minority pattern, which is a divisive and disruptive process.
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