Age, Class and Systems: Social Institutions and Polities Based on Age - Couverture souple

Livre 30 sur 95: Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology

Bernardi, Bernardo

 
9780521314824: Age, Class and Systems: Social Institutions and Polities Based on Age
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0521314828 ISBN 13 : 9780521314824
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

All societies are differentiated by age. But in some, this differentiation takes the form of institutionalized, formally graded age classes, the members of which share an assigned 'structural' age, if not necessarily the same physiological age. The nature of formal age group systems has become one of the classic issues in modern social anthropology, although until now there has been no comprehensive explication of these complex forms of social organization. In this book, Bernardo Bernardi, one of the pioneers of the anthropological study of age class systems, provides a way of making sense of the diversity of such systems by analysing cross-culturally their common features and the pattern of their differences, and showing that they serve a general purpose for the organization of society and for the distribution and rotation of power.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

All societies are differentiated by age. But in some, this differentiation takes the form of institutionalized, formally graded age classes, the members of which share an assigned 'structural' age, if not necessarily the same physiological age. The nature of formal age group systems has become one of the classic issues in modern social anthropology, although until now there has been no comprehensive explication of these complex forms of social organization. In this book, Bernardo Bernardi, one of the pioneers of the anthropological study of age class systems, provides a way of making sense of the diversity of such systems by analysing cross-culturally their common features and the pattern of their differences, and showing that they serve a general purpose for the organization of society and for the distribution and rotation of power.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2008
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521314828
ISBN 13 
9780521314824
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
208
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9780521307475: Age Class Systems: Social Institutions and Polities Based on Age

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521307473 ISBN 13 :  9780521307475
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1985
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