Political Anthropology

Politics: a static network of structural and functional mod els? Is it a "given" set of rules, statuses, and procedures? Or a dynamic process, a continuum related to the past as well as to the present and continually infl uenced by pressures within and outside of a society? Taking the latter view of the nature of political behavior, the editors of Political Anthropology here present an original compilation of papers that thoroughly assess contemporary maintenance of political power.