From equality to inequality : social change among newly sedentary Lanoh hunter-gatherer traders of Peninsular Malaysia /

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"The egalitarian society once enjoyed by the Lanoh hunter-gatherers of Peninsular Malaysia is quickly changing. Throughout a year of ethnographic fieldwork among the Lanoh, Csilla Dallos studied and interpreted social change in order to better understand the processes leading to inequality and...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Dallos, Csilla, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Malay
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
Series:Anthropological horizons.
Subjects:
Orang Asal (Malaysian people) > Social conditions.
Social change > Malaysia.
Equality > Malaysia.
Autochtones > Malaisie > Conditions sociales.
Changement social > Malaisie.
Inégalité sociale > Malaisie.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Equality
Social change
Malaysia
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Equality, inequality, and changing hunter-gatherers
  • Interethnic trade and social organization of pre-settlement Lanoh
  • The changing context of interethnic relations : from power balance to power imbalance
  • Withdrawl from contact and the development of village identity
  • Leadership competition, self-aggrandizement, and inequality
  • Pre-settlement organization, village integration, and self-aggrandizing strategies
  • Understanding equality and inequality in small-scale societies.

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