Donald V. Kurtz is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and has current affiliations with departments of Anthropology at the University of Texas - San Antonio and Southwest Texas State University. He is the author of The Politics of a Poverty Habitat, Contradictions and Conflict: A Dialectical Political Anthropology of a University in Western India, and Hegemony and Anthropology: Gramsci, Exegetes, Transformations.

• PART ONE PARADIGMS AND SCIENCE, 1 The Paradigms of Political Anthropology, PART TWO POLITICAL EssENTIALS, 2 Political Power, 3 Political Leaders and Authorities, 4 Succession to Political Status and Office and the Legitimation of Political Authority, PART THREE PARADIGMS AND TOPICS OF POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 5 The Structural-Functional Paradigm, 6 The Politics of Kinship, 7 The Processual Paradigm, 8 The Paradigm of Political Economy, 9 The Paradigm of Political Evolution: Neo-evolution and Political Organization, 10 The Paradigm of Political Evolution: The Evolution of Politics, 11 Anthropology and the Study of the State, 12 The Postmodem Paradigm of Political Anthropology: The Genre of Experimental Political Ethnography

Donald V. Kurtz is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee and has current affiliations with departments of Anthropology at the University of Texas - San Antonio and Southwest Texas State University. He is the author of The Politics of a Poverty Habitat, Contradictions and Conflict: A Dialectical Political Anthropology of a University in Western India, and Hegemony and Anthropology: Gramsci, Exegetes, Transformations.

• PART ONE PARADIGMS AND SCIENCE, 1 The Paradigms of Political Anthropology, PART TWO POLITICAL EssENTIALS, 2 Political Power, 3 Political Leaders and Authorities, 4 Succession to Political Status and Office and the Legitimation of Political Authority, PART THREE PARADIGMS AND TOPICS OF POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 5 The Structural-Functional Paradigm, 6 The Politics of Kinship, 7 The Processual Paradigm, 8 The Paradigm of Political Economy, 9 The Paradigm of Political Evolution: Neo-evolution and Political Organization, 10 The Paradigm of Political Evolution: The Evolution of Politics, 11 Anthropology and the Study of the State, 12 The Postmodem Paradigm of Political Anthropology: The Genre of Experimental Political Ethnography