1st Edition
People of the Mediterranean An Essay in Comparative Social Anthropology
1. Introduction 1.1. The Distinctiveness of Mediterranean Anthropology 1.2. Its Failures 1.3. Assumptions and Procedures in This Book 2. Economic Anthropology of Mediterranean Societies 2.1. General Survey 2.2. Work on Pastoralists 2.3. On Migration and Labour Migration 2.4. On Agriculturalists 2.5. On Markets and Merchants 2.6. On Development and Reform 2.7. Coda 3. Stratification 3.1. The Three Main Idioms of Stratification and Their Relation to Modes of Political Representation 3.2. Crude Material Differences in Wealth 3.3. Honour 3.4. Bureaucracy 3.5. Class 3.6. Egalitarian Systems 4. Politics 4.1. The Relation between Modes of Representation 4.2. Class Action 4.3. Patronage 4.4. Class, Bureaucracy and Honour Applied to Three Cases 5. Family and Kinship 5.1. Introductory Survey 5.2. Kinds of Domestic Group 5.3. Division of Households, Dispersal of Property and Persons 5.4. Systems of Kinship, Patterns of Marriage 5.5. Godparenthood 6. Anthropologists and History in the Mediterranean 6.1. Oxford and the Anthropology of More Complex Societies 6.2. Historic Landscapes 6.3. Social Processes 6.4. Generations and Configurations 6.5. Continuities and Differential Survival
Biography
J. Davis
