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Introduction / Heike Delitz and Robert Seyfert -- The purpose of this book -- The naturalistic conception of anthropology and its political ambiguity -- The path to political anthropology -- The universal conception of political anthropology with regard to the human as the historical subject of attribution of its world -- Should universal anthropology proceed empirically or a priori? -- Two possible a priori procedures -- The new possibility of combining the a priori and empirical views according to the principle of the human's unfathomability -- Excursus: Dilthey's idea of a philosophy of life -- The principle of unfathomability, or the principle of open questions -- The human as power -- The exposure of the human -- Excursus: Why it is significant for the question of power that the primacy of philosophy or anthropology is undecidable -- The powerlessness and predictability of the human -- The human is tied to a people -- Epilogue. Political anthropology: Plessner's fascinating voice from Weimar / Joachim Fischer

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I Dimensions Of Conflict In Political Action -- Segmentary Factional Political Systems -- Impotency and Power: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of the Effect of Alien Rule -- Anarchy without Chaos: Alternatives to Political Authority among the Kuikuru -- Bases for Political Compliance in Bena Villages -- Part II Authority And Authority Codes -- Politics and Shell-Money Finance in New Britain -- Power, Authority, and Personal Success in Islam and Bornu -- The Resolution of Conflict among the Lugbara of Uganda -- The Economic Activities of a Gilbertese Chief -- Problems of Succession in a Chippewa Council -- Part III Politics And Ritual -- Revolutionary Politics and Communal Ritual -- The Alien Diviner and Local Politics among the Tonga of Zambia -- Kinga Priests: The Politics of Pestilence -- Ritual Aspects of Conflict Control in African Micropolitics -- Part IV Political Fields And Their Boundaries -- From Contest to Council: Social Control among the St. Lawrence Island Eskimos -- Conflict Resolution in Changing Chinese Society: A Taiwanese Study -- Leadership and the Decision-Making Process among the Ila and the Swat Pathans -- Some Political Aspects of Clanship in a Modern Chinese City -- Index

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