Lectures on Politics and Economic Life: Lecture 2 - The distribution of wealth

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Description: Lecture given by Alan Macfarlane to first year students in Social Anthropology and Social and Political Sciences in 2007 and 2008 and filmed by Zilan Wang
A general overview of types of property and stratification in the four major types of civilization: hunters and gatherers, tribesmen, peasants and industrialists. The normal tendencies in systems of property and stratification. The relations of production and the production of relations.
Hann, C., chapter 8.
Woodburn, J., ‘Egalitarian Societies’, Man, 1982, vol.17, no.4., pp.431-451
Hann, C.M. (ed.), Property Relations: renewing the anthropological tradition (1998)
A.Beteille (ed.), Social Inequality (1969) esp. chs. 1, 11,12,13, 17

 
Created: 2018-03-23 16:50
Collection: Politics and Economic Life Lectures
Publisher: University of Cambridge
Copyright: Prof Alan Macfarlane
Language: eng (English)
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