The foundations of a political anthropology

The foundations of a political anthropology

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This article examines and comments upon the methodological innovation proposed in political anthropology by the work of J.-W.Lapierre in the late bicycles 1960s.The text seeks to show the origin ality and interest of the proposal- as well as its problems - in the midst of the various critical reviews which were then reevaluating the direction of the discipline (Balandier, Gluckman , Beatti e, M.Fried etc.

).The article also und ertakes to evaluate, in historical perspective, teh territory and horizons of the Miniatures Kit debate of which his solution is a part - the difficulties of the diverse configurations assumed by comparativism in the practice of the discipline.