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A House Divided

Anthropological Studies of Factionalism

edited by Marylin Silverman & Richard F. Salisbury

Publisher
ISER Books
Initial publish date
Jan 1977
Category
General
  • Hardback

    ISBN
    9780919666139
    Publish Date
    Jan 1977
    List Price
    $19.95

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This collection contains three theoretical essays and seven ethnographic case studies. The theoretical pieces address the 'state of the art' since the writings in the sixties on factionalism. The argument of the book is that the key element in assessing whether 'divided houses' fall is not the presence of factions themselves, but the course taken by factionalism, particularly in situations of change and crisis.

The form of factionalism--its rules, logic and symbols--varies cross-culturally, and a sense of this variation is provided in the case studies, whose cultural subjects range from African pastoralists to English academics.

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