Richard G Dillon
Biographic Data
| ID | 88161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard G Dillon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard G |
| FAMILY NAME | Dillon |
| SIGNATURE | DILLON R G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hobart and William Smith Colleges |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Boundary work
Ranking and Resistance
Ranking and Resistance
A note on orthography 1. Introduction 2. Fieldwork setting and research methodology 3. The Bamenda plateau as a regional system 4. Precolonial Meta' 5. Patrilineal descent 6. Village-level leadership: the ideal model 7. Village-level rituals and activities 8. Ideal and real in village-level conflict management 9. Process and variation in village organization 10. Political organization in the intervillage sphere 11. Conflict and competition in the…
Ranking and Resistance
Games against Nature
Violent conflict in Meta' society
A critical review of social structural approaches to violent conflict reveals a composite theoretical model that contrasts peaceful conflicting loyalties type societies with violent fraternal interest group type societies. Ethnohistorical data on warfare and fighting from a precolonial African society are used to illuminate relationships between violence and social structure more complex than any envisioned by advocates of the social structural a…
Capital Punishment in Egalitarian Society
Executions in egalitarian societies represent an important yet neglected topic in the anthropology of law. Although isolated cases have long been on record, theorists of legal and political evolution have not incorporated this evidence adequately into their models. This is in part due to the lack of detailed analyses of the operation of these legal procedures within specific social systems. The present paper seeks to fill this gap by analyzing th…
Ritual, Conflict, and Meaning in an African Society
Ritual Resolution in Meta' Legal Process
Specialists in conflict resolution by ritual means, such as the much discussed Nuer Leopard-Skin Chief, have long been familiar in the anthropological literature (Evans-Pritchard I940, I956; Howell I954), and a number of studies have shown how disputes may be resolved by linking social conflict and supernatural danger (Fortes I940, I945; Harper I957; Huber I959; Llewellyn and Hoebel I94I; Schneider I957; Winans and Edgerton I964). However, relati…
Violent conflict in Meta' society
A critical review of social structural approaches to violent conflict reveals a composite theoretical model that contrasts peaceful conflicting loyalties type societies with violent fraternal interest group type societies. Ethnohistorical data on warfare and fighting from a precolonial African society are used to illuminate relationships between violence and social structure more complex than any envisioned by advocates of the social structural a…
Ritual Resolution in Meta' Legal Process
Specialists in conflict resolution by ritual means, such as the much discussed Nuer Leopard-Skin Chief, have long been familiar in the anthropological literature (Evans-Pritchard I940, I956; Howell I954), and a number of studies have shown how disputes may be resolved by linking social conflict and supernatural danger (Fortes I940, I945; Harper I957; Huber I959; Llewellyn and Hoebel I94I; Schneider I957; Winans and Edgerton I964). However, relati…
Boundary work
Games against Nature
Capital Punishment in Egalitarian Society
Executions in egalitarian societies represent an important yet neglected topic in the anthropology of law. Although isolated cases have long been on record, theorists of legal and political evolution have not incorporated this evidence adequately into their models. This is in part due to the lack of detailed analyses of the operation of these legal procedures within specific social systems. The present paper seeks to fill this gap by analyzing th…
Ritual, Conflict, and Meaning in an African Society
Ritual Resolution in Meta' Legal Process
Specialists in conflict resolution by ritual means, such as the much discussed Nuer Leopard-Skin Chief, have long been familiar in the anthropological literature (Evans-Pritchard I940, I956; Howell I954), and a number of studies have shown how disputes may be resolved by linking social conflict and supernatural danger (Fortes I940, I945; Harper I957; Huber I959; Llewellyn and Hoebel I94I; Schneider I957; Winans and Edgerton I964). However, relati…
Ritual, Conflict, and Meaning in an African Society
Violent conflict in Meta' society
A critical review of social structural approaches to violent conflict reveals a composite theoretical model that contrasts peaceful conflicting loyalties type societies with violent fraternal interest group type societies. Ethnohistorical data on warfare and fighting from a precolonial African society are used to illuminate relationships between violence and social structure more complex than any envisioned by advocates of the social structural a…
Capital Punishment in Egalitarian Society
Executions in egalitarian societies represent an important yet neglected topic in the anthropology of law. Although isolated cases have long been on record, theorists of legal and political evolution have not incorporated this evidence adequately into their models. This is in part due to the lack of detailed analyses of the operation of these legal procedures within specific social systems. The present paper seeks to fill this gap by analyzing th…
Games against Nature
Ranking and Resistance
A note on orthography 1. Introduction 2. Fieldwork setting and research methodology 3. The Bamenda plateau as a regional system 4. Precolonial Meta' 5. Patrilineal descent 6. Village-level leadership: the ideal model 7. Village-level rituals and activities 8. Ideal and real in village-level conflict management 9. Process and variation in village organization 10. Political organization in the intervillage sphere 11. Conflict and competition in the…
Ranking and Resistance
Ranking and Resistance
Boundary work
Law (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · History (4 works) · African history and culture studies (3 works) · Biology (3 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geography (3 works)