C Townsend
Biographic Data
| ID | 16468 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Townsend |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Townsend |
| SIGNATURE | TOWNSEND C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Baylor University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4274-1811 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Secret Societies and the Political Context of Joseph Smith's Rewritten Scripture
Generosity among the Ik of Uganda
Status does not predict stress
Egalitarianism, Evolution of
Theory on the evolution of egalitarianism and its relevance to anthropology is described in three sections. The first section carefully defines and delimits usage of the term egalitarianism in anthropology, outlines the form of social organization empirically observed in egalitarian societies, and clarifies the difference between egalitarian and acephalous societies. The second section describes multidisciplinary perspectives on the egalitarian d…
Baka ritual flow diverted
Ethnographers of Congo Basin hunter-gatherers have emphasised ritual as a levelling mechanism that strengthens community spirit and mediates power evenly between individuals and subgroups. Pursuant to recent research with a Baka community in Cameroon, now largely abandoning the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, I analyse the mutual causal interactions between ritual alterations and other markers of social change. I argue that there is a positive feedbac…
Human violence and morality
Evangelicalism and the Politics of Reform in Northern Black Thought, 1776-1863
Withdrawn
Generosity among the Ik of Uganda
Status does not predict stress
Baka ritual flow diverted
Ethnographers of Congo Basin hunter-gatherers have emphasised ritual as a levelling mechanism that strengthens community spirit and mediates power evenly between individuals and subgroups. Pursuant to recent research with a Baka community in Cameroon, now largely abandoning the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, I analyse the mutual causal interactions between ritual alterations and other markers of social change. I argue that there is a positive feedbac…
Withdrawn
Evangelicalism and the Politics of Reform in Northern Black Thought, 1776-1863
Baka ritual flow diverted
Ethnographers of Congo Basin hunter-gatherers have emphasised ritual as a levelling mechanism that strengthens community spirit and mediates power evenly between individuals and subgroups. Pursuant to recent research with a Baka community in Cameroon, now largely abandoning the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, I analyse the mutual causal interactions between ritual alterations and other markers of social change. I argue that there is a positive feedbac…
Human violence and morality
Egalitarianism, Evolution of
Theory on the evolution of egalitarianism and its relevance to anthropology is described in three sections. The first section carefully defines and delimits usage of the term egalitarianism in anthropology, outlines the form of social organization empirically observed in egalitarian societies, and clarifies the difference between egalitarian and acephalous societies. The second section describes multidisciplinary perspectives on the egalitarian d…
Generosity among the Ik of Uganda
Status does not predict stress
Secret Societies and the Political Context of Joseph Smith's Rewritten Scripture
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)