S. L. Seaton & Henri J. Claessen 
Political Anthropology [PDF ebook] 
The State of the Art

i-iv – General Editor’s Preface – Table of Contents – Introduction – PART ONE: Theory – Political Anthropology: Issues and Trends on the Frontier – New Directions in Political Anthropology: The Use of Corporate Models for the Analysis of Political Organizations – PART TWO: Centers and Peripheries – Patron-Client Structure in Modern World Organization – Local-Level Politics and Social Change in Tigre: A Transactional Analysis of Adaptive Change – The Duke had a Word for it: Local-Level Competition Between Tribals and Non-Tribals – Tribute Relations – The Promotion of Suzerainty Between Sedentary and Nomadic Populations in Eastern Ethiopia – PART THREE: Authority and Power – On the Forms of Disintegration of the Clan Society of North American Indians – The Balance of Power in Primitive States – The Dynamics of Early State Development in the Voltaic Area – Citizenship and Sources of Political Authority in the Marianas – Change in Rank and Status in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga – Law and Negative Sanctions in African Societies – PART FOUR: Political Culture – Ritual in Consensual Power Relations: The Israel Labor Party – Peasant Political Cognition: A Methodological Perspective – Three Tiwa Communities and Their Response to Stress for Change – A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Slovenian Sociopolitical Frames of Reference – Biographical Notes – Index of Names – Index of Subjects