Political Ethnology

The policy Ethnology ( ancient Greek politika "the political things," ethnos " people " and -logie ) is a field of anthropology (ethnology) and the branch of comparative politics . She examines political conditions and institutions among ethnic groups and indigenous peoples worldwide. It largely corresponds to Anglo-Saxon political anthropology and can be distinguished from (German-speaking) political anthropology , which in political science belongs more to political theory and the history of ideas than to comparative political science.

At first, the politics of non-state societies was researched in political ethnology, but now the focus is on political organization in other cultural areas and cultural areas . From an ethnological perspective, it is about lived political practice (political organization) and less about state rules (political structure) .

See also

fList of topics: Political Ethnology  - Overview in the portal: Ethnology

• Political system
• Political philosophy

literature

Newest first:

• Frank Heidemann: Political Ethnology . In: Same: Ethnology. An introduction. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2011, ISBN 978-3-8252-3467-6 , pp. 199–212.
• Joan Vincent (Ed.): The Anthropology of Politics. A Reader in Ethnography, Theory, and Critique. Blackwell, Malden 2002, ISBN 0-631-22440-8 (English).
• John Gledhill: Power and Its Disguises. Pluto Press, London 1994, ISBN 0-7453-0739-6 (English).
• Ted C. Lewellen: Political Anthropology. An Introduction. Bergin & Garvey, South Hadley 1983, ISBN 0-89789-029-9 (English).
• Stefan Breuer : On the sociogenesis of the patrimonial state. In: Derselbe, Hubert Driver : Development and structural change of the state (= contributions to social science research. Volume 38). Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1982, ISBN 3-531-11609-6 , pp. 163-227.
• Georges Balandier : Political Anthropology. dtv, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-423-04191-9 (French original: Anthropologie politique 1967).
• Marc J. Swartz, Victor Witter Turner , Arthur Tuden (Eds.): Political Anthropology. Aldine, Chicago 1966, ISBN 0-202-30894-4 (English; conference proceedings).
• Meyer Fortes , Edward Evan Evans-Pritchard (Eds.): African Political Systems . Oxford University Press, London / New York 1940 (English; 4th edition from 1950 online at archive.org).

Web links

• Gabriele Rasuly-Paleczek: Forms of socio-political organization (part 5/5). (PDF file: 227 kB; 39 pages) In: Introduction to the forms of social organization. Institute for Cultural and Social Anthropology, University of Vienna, 2011, pp. 187–202 , archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; accessed on June 10, 2018 (documents for your lecture in the summer semester 2011).