TY - JOUR
T1 - Reflections on a meeting
T2 - structure, language, and the polity in a small‐scale society
AU - Myers, Fred
PY - 1986/8
Y1 - 1986/8
N2 - Careful attention to the importance of language shows it to be a constitutive part of Pintupi social life. Accounting for the value and form of this activity leads to reconceptualizing the nature of politics and the polity in an Australian Aboriginal society. Implications of these structural features for the practical experience of a cultural subject are explored through comparison with other societies. The existence of systematic variation argues that we must attend to kinds of structural differences in the polity of small‐scale societies. 1986 American Anthropological Association
AB - Careful attention to the importance of language shows it to be a constitutive part of Pintupi social life. Accounting for the value and form of this activity leads to reconceptualizing the nature of politics and the polity in an Australian Aboriginal society. Implications of these structural features for the practical experience of a cultural subject are explored through comparison with other societies. The existence of systematic variation argues that we must attend to kinds of structural differences in the polity of small‐scale societies. 1986 American Anthropological Association
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U2 - 10.1525/ae.1986.13.3.02a00020
DO - 10.1525/ae.1986.13.3.02a00020
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84981928431
SN - 0094-0496
VL - 13
SP - 430
EP - 447
JO - American Ethnologist
JF - American Ethnologist
IS - 3
ER -