1st Edition

Stratagems And Spoils A Social Anthropology Of Politics

By F.g. Bailey Copyright 2001
272 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

272 Pages
by Routledge

F.G. Bailey's classic political-anthropology text is reissued here with a Postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of scholars and students with a revealing examination of principles of political competition that operate alike in ?exotic? and ?developed? societies. In Bailey's... Read more
* Introduction * A Political System * A Political Structure * Leaders and Teams * The Leaders Tasks * Strong and Weak Leaders * Contests * Control * Encapsulated Political Structures * Change * Postscript to the Westview Edition * References * Index

Biography

F G Bailey