Patrons, Clients and Friends
Author: S. N. Eisenstadt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984-10-18
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521288903
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Author: S. N. Eisenstadt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984-10-18
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780521288903
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAbout interpersonal relations in society.
Author: Jeremy Kemp
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Published: 1980
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ernest Gellner
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 1977
Total Pages: 370
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: David A. deSilva
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Published: 2022-10-04
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1514003864
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a milestone study, a careful explanation of four essential cultural themes offers readers a window into how early Christians sustained commitment to distinctly Christian identity and practice, and with it, a new appreciation of the New Testament, the gospel, and Christian discipleship.
Author: Jeremy Kemp
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 18
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Eric R. Wolf
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2001-01-03
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 0520223349
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays was devised by the author to study how anthropology brought the study of complex societies and world systems in to its purview.
Author: Sharon Kettering
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1986-06-12
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0195365100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown centralized its power nationally by changing the way it delegated its royal patronage in the provinces. During this period, the royal government of Paris gradually extended its sphere of control by taking power away from the powerful and potentially disloyal provincial governors and nobility and instead putting it in the hands of provincial power brokers--regional notables who cooperated with the Paris ministers in exchange for their patronage. The new alliances between the Crown's ministers and loyal provincial elites functioned as political machines on behalf of the Crown, leading to smoother regional-national cooperation and foreshadowing the bureaucratic state that was to follow.
Author: Aksana Ismailbekova
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2017-05-22
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 025302577X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn anthropologist explores the politics and society of Kyrgyzstan through a study of one influential man’s life. A pioneering study of kinship, patronage, and politics in Central Asia, Blood Ties and the Native Son tells the story of the rise and fall of a man called Rahim, an influential and powerful patron in rural northern Kyrgyzstan, and of how his relations with clients and kin shaped the economic and social life of the region. Many observers of politics in post-Soviet Central Asia have assumed that corruption, nepotism, and patron-client relations would forestall democratization. Looking at the intersection of kinship ties with political patronage, Aksana Ismailbekova finds instead that this intertwining has in fact enabled democratization—both kinship and patronage develop apace with democracy, although patronage relations may stymie individual political opinion and action. “This book is an important contribution to a growing literature on Central Asian politics and society, and by complicating dominant narratives about the dangers of weak state institutions, Ismailbekova has much to offer to the broader research project on democratization and clientelism.” —Europe-Asia Studies
Author: Evelyn Blackwood
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2000-01-12
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1461646898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWebs of Power offers a fresh perspective on women in Southeast Asia. Focusing on one rural Minangkabau village, the book provides vital insights into the gendered processes of post-coloniality. The Minangkabau living in West Sumatra are the largest matrilineal group in the world. They have intrigued generations of scholars because they are matrilineal and Islamic. By exploring the contestations and accommodations women and men make with state and Islamic ideologies, Webs of Power discloses the processes at the heart of globalization as well as the complexities of kinship and power in a rural agricultural community. The book challenges conventional thinking about matriliny, showing the prominence of senior women in all aspects of village life.
Author: Colin Newbury
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2003-01-02
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0191555258
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPatrons, Clients, and Empire challenges the stereotypes of despotic imperial power in Asian, African, and Pacific colonies by analysing the relationship between rulers and rulers on both sides of the imperial equation. It seeks an answer to the question: how were European officials able to govern so many societies for so long? Rejecting the usual explanations of 'collaboration' and indirect rule', this study looks to pre-imperial structures in the indigenous hierarchies which supplied patrimonial models of chieftaincy for territorial government. For nawabs, chiefs, emirs, sultans, and their officials and followers there were dynastic and economic advantages in accepting the terms of European over-rule, as well as the threat of deposition. For European officials, few in numbers and with limited military and financial resources, there were ready-made systems of local government that could be co-opted, reformed, or left relatively untouched. Both sides played politics as patrons and clients within a dual system of administration based on a mixture of force and self-interest. Surveying a wide variety of cases and employing a patron-client model, this study embraces pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial politics in new states. It covers the chronology of early European dependency on local rulers; the reasons for reversal of status among chiefs and administrators; the longer period of political bargaining over access to local resources in terms of land, labour, and taxes; and the ultimate fate of indigenous rulers in the period of party politics leading to independence.