Contiene: Introduction: the bizarre and the mystical in modern society - Psychological and culturological explanations - The approach from political anthropology - Power relations and symbolic action - The central theoretica issue in political anthropology - The power order - The symbolic order - Form and function of symbolic formations - The dialectics of politico-symbolic interdependence continuity and chage symbolic formations - Action theorists - Thought structuralists - Analysis v. description in social science - Political man-symbolic man - Symbolic strategies in grup organization - Informal organization - Organisational functions - Communications - Decision-making - Austhority and the leadership process - Ideology - Belief and symbolic action: the process of socialisation - The problem of cultural heterogenety - Invisible organisations: some case studies: Ethnic group - Elite groups - Religious groups - Secret rital group.

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