The Imbalance of Power

The Imbalance of Power
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 205
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ISBN-10 : 9781785333101
ISBN-13 : 1785333100
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Book Synopsis The Imbalance of Power by : Marc Brightman

Download or read book The Imbalance of Power written by Marc Brightman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American ‘state of nature’ operates as a foil for the European polity. Challenging this tradition, The Imbalance of Power demonstrates ethnographically that the Carib speaking indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of ‘simple’ political units with ‘egalitarian’ political ideologies and ‘harmonious’ relationships with nature. Marc Brightman builds a persuasive and original theory of Amerindian politics: far from balanced and egalitarian, Carib societies are rife with tension and difference; but this imbalance conditions social dynamism and a distinctive mode of cohesion. The Imbalance of Power is based on the author’s fieldwork in partnership with Vanessa Grotti, who is working on a companion volume entitled Living with the Enemy: First Contacts and the Making of Christian Bodies in Amazonia.


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