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.

• Introduction -- Paradigms and Science -- The Paradigms of Political Anthropology -- Political Essentials -- Political Power -- Political Leaders and Authorities -- Succession to Political Status and Office and the Legitimation of Political Authority -- Paradigms and Topics of Political Anthropology -- The Structural-Functional Paradigm -- The Politics of Kinship -- The Processual Paradigm -- The Paradigm of Political Economy -- The Paradigm of Political Evolution -- The Paradigm of Political Evolution -- Anthropology and the Study of the State -- The Postmodern Paradigm of Political Anthropology

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.

• Introduction -- Paradigms and Science -- The Paradigms of Political Anthropology -- Political Essentials -- Political Power -- Political Leaders and Authorities -- Succession to Political Status and Office and the Legitimation of Political Authority -- Paradigms and Topics of Political Anthropology -- The Structural-Functional Paradigm -- The Politics of Kinship -- The Processual Paradigm -- The Paradigm of Political Economy -- The Paradigm of Political Evolution -- The Paradigm of Political Evolution -- Anthropology and the Study of the State -- The Postmodern Paradigm of Political Anthropology