Tribes

Challenging the Image, Shifting the Paradigm

Lawrence Rosen (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

220 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-041-14932-3 (ISBN)

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Tribes: Challenging the Image, Shifting the Paradigm reconsiders the concept of “tribe” in political, cultural, and academic discourse, offering a dynamic alternative to outdated and damaging stereotypes. It is ideal for students and researchers interested in anthropology, human rights, international relations, and political rhetoric.

Tribes: Challenging the Image, Shifting the Paradigm reconsiders the concept of “tribe” in political, cultural, and academic discourse, offering a dynamic alternative to outdated and damaging stereotypes.

This book critiques the popular portrayal of tribes as static, violent, or regressive, arguing instead for an understanding of tribal life as adaptive, egalitarian, and resilient. Drawing on examples from colonial history, contemporary war zones, and indigenous sovereignty movements, it explores how tribes disperse power, resist conquest, and regenerate through ritual and cultural practice. The volume challenges the misuse of “tribalism” in modern politics and repositions tribes as vital actors in global conversations about identity, governance, and resource rights. Through comparative analysis, it proposes a new paradigm that recognizes tribes as shape-shifters rather than fixed structures.

Tribes: Challenging the Image, Shifting the Paradigm is ideal for students and researchers interested in anthropology, human rights, international relations, and political rhetoric.

Lawrence Rosen is W. N. Cromwell Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, Princeton University and Adjunct Professor of Law Emeritus, Columbia University. Named to the first group of MacArthur Award recipients, he has held fellowships at Harvard Law School, The Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, Oxford and Cambridge Universities.

Preface 1. The Problem of Tribe 2. Romancing the Tribe: History, Theory, Narrative 3. Shifting the Paradigm, Part I: The Tribal Ethos 4. Shifting the Paradigm, Part II: The Spirit of Reciprocity Interlude: Is Judaism a Tribal Religion? 5. Tribal Encounters: Colonialism, Corporations, and the Military 6. Anomalous Singularities: Tribal Sovereignty in the Modern World Order Afterword: “We’re Still Here”

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.4.2026
Zusatzinfo	23 Halftones, black and white; 23 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-041-14932-8 / 1041149328
ISBN-13	978-1-041-14932-3 / 9781041149323
Zustand	Neuware