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