Totalization and detotalization: Alternatives to hierarchy and individualism

Anthropological Theory

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 233-254

  Rio, Knut M ^a   Smedal, Olaf H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Hierarchy; Individualism; The social; Totalization

Indexed keywords

EID: 60949771712     PISSN: 14634996     EISSN: 17412641     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1463499608093813     Document Type: Review

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