From Equality to Inequality : Social Change Among Newly Sedentary Lanoh Hunter-Gatherer Traders of Peninsular Malaysia /

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From Equality to Inequality provides rich empirical data on the factors within a community that significantly affect the development of inequality, including the effects of sedentism, integration, leadership competition, self-aggrandizement, marginalization, and feuding kinship groups. In this case...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dallos, Csilla, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Malay
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2011]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social change.
Equality.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Inegalite sociale > Malaisie.
Changement social > Malaisie.
Autochtones > Malaisie > Conditions sociales.
Equality > Malaysia.
Social change > Malaysia.
Orang Asal (Malaysian people) > Social conditions.
Malaysia.
Electronic books.
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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