Two-dimensional Man: An Essay on the Anthropology of Power and Symbolism in Complex SocietyProposes guidelines for the analysis of the causal interconnections between the cultural diversity of American cities and the struggle for economic and political power among the various groups in the cities |
Contents
modern society | 1 |
The power order | 18 |
The dialectics of politicosymbolic interdependence | 36 |
Institutional differentiation and the return to multiplexity | 48 |
22 | 61 |
Symbolic strategies in group organisation | 65 |
Secret ritual groups | 106 |
symbolic action in the politics | 119 |
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