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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE. THE NATURE OF POWER -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Basic Elements -- 3. Additional Considerations -- 4. The Variety of Operating Units -- 5. Power Domains and Levels -- PART TWO. ENERGETIC AND MENTALISTIC STRUCTURES -- 6. A Note on Structure, Mind and Matter, and Culture -- 7. The Energetic -- 8. The Mentalistic -- PART THREE. A MODEL OF THE EVOLUTION OF POWER -- 9. The Framework -- 10. Levels of Integration -- 11. Replicative Processes -- 12. Social Power and the Future -- Works Cited -- Index

Anthropology should deal with man holistically, but has failed to do so. The field is unfortunately split between mentalistic and materialistic schools and has not developed a theory to cope with the complexity of large contemporary societies. Energy similarly has been little studied by anthropology because there has been no theory sufficient for the purpose. The thermodynamics of structures far from equilibrium and the dissipative structure model of Ilya Prigogine offer a method for both studying energy in society and dealing with society as a whole. Anthropologists are urged to pursue study of this area because it is critical for an understanding of human destiny. [energy, holism, materialism‐mentalism, dissipative structures, complex societies]

When Kalman Silvert died of a heart attack, Latin Americanist scholarship lost its greatest protagonist; American scholars lost one of the most active opponents of intellectual technocracy, and, thereby, the American public lost an important proponent of democracy; the Ford Foundation lost a guiding figure in international social science planning; his family and friends lost an individual of inestimable and irreplaceable personal worth; and Kal, himself, lost the opportunity to pursue his own course toward the development of a humanistic politics for the Western world. In the fall of 1976, Kal and Frieda Silvert were to have taken up residence in Mexico, to continue to work for the Ford Foundation, but in a new direction and with much more time for him to dedicate to the problems that interested him the most. Leaving some part of his task undone was inevitable; it is difficult to imagine anyone being able to achieve the goals that Kal set for himself.

Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- I The Study of Complex Societies -- Appendix to Chapter I -- 2 Structure and Development in Guatemala -- 3 The Organization of Power, 1944-c 3 The Organization of Power, 1944-1966 -- 4 The Development of the Military -- 5 The Renaissance of the Guatemalan Church -- 6 The Expansion of Upper-Sector Interest Groups -- 7 The Costs of Growth: Expansion in Cotton -- 8 The Problem of Access -- 9. The Stunted Growth of Campesino Organizations -- 10 The Social Organization of Low-Income Urban Families -- Works Cited -- Index