Hierarchy : persistence and transformation in social formations

Acknowledgments Chapter 1. Hierarchy and Its Alternatives: An Introduction to Movements of Totalization and Detotalization Knut M. Rio and Olaf H. Smedal Chapter 2. Conversion, Hierarchy, and Cultural Change: Value and Syncretism in the Globalization of Pentecostal and Charismatic Christianity Joel Robbins Chapter 3. Gender and Value: Conceptualizing Social Forms on Ambrym, Vanuatu Annelin Eriksen Chapter 4. Can a Hierarchical Religion Survive without Its Center? Caodaism, Colonialism, and Exile Janet Hoskins Chapter 5. The Headless State in Inner Asia: Reconsidering Kinship Society and the Discourse of Tribalism David Sneath Chapter 6. The Perfect Sovereign: The Sacralized Power of the Ottoman Sultan Kjetil Fosshagen Chapter 7. Marriage, Rank, and Politics in Hawaii Valerio Valeri Chapter 8. Polynesian Conceptions of Sociality: A Dynamic Field of Hierarchical Encompassment Ingjerd HoA"m Chapter 9. On the Value of the Beast or the Limit of Money: Notes on the Meaning of Marriage Prestations among the Ngadha, Central Flores (Indonesia) Olaf H. Smedal Chapter 10. Hierarchy Is not Inequality-in Polynesia, for Instance Serge Tcherkezoff Chapter 11. Hierarchy and Power: A Comparative Attempt under Asymmetrical Lines Andre Iteanu Afterword: On Dumont's Relentless Comparativism Frederick H. Damon Notes on Contributors Index