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Journal

Lud

2009 | 93 | 13-34

Article title

POWER AND AUTHORITY - POLITICAL LEADERSHIP IN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE (Wladza i autorytet - przywództwo polityczne w ujeciu antropologicznym)

Authors

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Languages of publication

PL

Abstracts

EN
The article describes leadership concepts developed in political anthropology from its very beginnings until modern times. The author tries to trace the history of anthropological reflection on political leadership and shows how its understanding in different theoretical orientation was changing. These changes are discussed against the background of socio-political transformations taking place in the Western world. The article presents the views of evolutionists, classical functionalist concepts of leadership and their subsequent modifications made by representatives of processualism and the theory of action as well as the concepts of power and authority developed by neo-evolutionists. The last part of the article addresses most recent studies on leadership in the post-colonial world and in pluralist Western societies. The history of anthropological studies on leadership shows how its understanding has evolved - from formal understanding, when leadership was perceived as a category identical to an exercise of power, to approaches in which leadership is understood as a dynamic structure, an aspect of social practice inseparably connected to other areas of culture such as kinship, power, prestige, religion, economics or law.

Journal

Lud

Year

Volume

93

Pages

13-34

Physical description

Document type

ARTICLE

Contributors

  • Wojciech Dohnal, Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, Instytut Etnologii i Antropologii Kulturowej, ul. sw. Marcin 78, 61-809 Poznan, Poland

References

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Publication order reference

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier
09PLAAAA07071

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.324bbad7-52f5-30f0-b485-61daaf27f08d
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