Politics Law and Ritual

by Max Gluckman

Book Overview

What can we learn from deceptively simple tribal soci eties about the ways in which man resolves his con icts with other men? How can the social anthropologist aid in our understanding of the problems of power and social control common to all societies, from the simplest to the highly complex? What special tools of the anthropologist enable him to view these phenomena scientically.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0631087508
• ISBN13: 9780631087502
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: Blackwell Publishers
• Length: 339 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.