F G Bailey

Biographic Data

ID80986
NAMEF G Bailey
GIVEN NAMESF G
FAMILY NAMEBailey
SIGNATUREBAILEY F G
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California San Diego
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS82
TOTAL CITATIONS341
AUTHOR COUNT82
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1959
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX10

  • Culture, Rhetoric and the Vicissitudes of Life

    F G Bailey, Ellen B Basso et al.BOOKCulture, Rhetoric and the…2022

    Inspired by the Rhetoric Culture Project, this volume focuses on the use of imagery, narrative, and cultural schemes to deal with predicaments that arise during the course of life. The contributors explore how people muster their resources to understand and deal with emergencies such as illness, displacement, or genocide. In dealing with such circumstances, people can develop new rhetorical forms and, in the process, establish new cultural resour…

  • A Political Structure

    F G BaileyCHAPTERStratagems and Spoils2018

    A political structure contains rules about prizes, personnel, leadership (teams), competition and control. Every political structure has rules about personnel, which say what qualifications a man needs to occupy a political role. Some kind of leadership role will be found in any political team, but the variations are immense. This chapter briefly discusses and illustrates each category of rule through examples. In both games and politics a prize …

  • The Leader’s Tasks

    F G BaileyCHAPTERStratagems and Spoils2018

    Uncertainty means conditions under which people cannot find a rule to guide their reactions. They cannot easily assimilate their present condition to some similar condition in the past, and use this as a precedent for making a plan of action. The leader&s;s range of tasks concern the world outside the team, especially that part of it which constitutes the arena in which the team is competing. One of the distinctive characteristics of political co…

  • Leaders and Teams

    F G Bailey, Fiona BaileyCHAPTERStratagems and Spoils2018

    This chapter looks at leaders as men who have limited resources with which to gain their ends, and who must choose between the different manoeuvres or counter-manoeuvres which are open to them according to their estimate of the relative costs. It emphasizes again that this mode of enquiry does not deny the existence of altruistic action or the fact that men have ideals: but it does deny that such action is cost-free. The chapter examines the dist…

  • A Political System

    F G BaileyCHAPTERStratagems and Spoils2018

    There are hundreds of other examples of how people try to win their way in political competition, displaying a private wisdom which lies behind the public face of politics. A political structure and its environment together constitute a political system, and such systems are understood when the continuous process of adaptation and adjustment between structure and environment is understood. The political structure interacts with its environment: t…

  • Strong and Weak Leaders

    F G BaileyCHAPTERStratagems and Spoils2018

    Contract teams are groups in which the followers do not feel themselves beholden to the leader or to any cause as a matter of conscience, but evaluate the relationship with the leader on the basis of profit or potential profit. It should be stressed that in spite of the materialistic basis of transactional groupings in politics, successful leadership is a matter of skills rather than just of possessions. The transactional leader works to create a…

  • Encapsulated Political Structures

    F G BaileyCHAPTERStratagems and Spoils2018

    The difficulty that faces encapsulated political structures is the difficulty that faces all political structures: how to maintain themselves by finding adjustment with a changed environment. The transactional element is much nearer the normative surface of public life in peasant societies than in the larger encapsulating structures; pragmatically, one suspects, there is little to choose between them. In a situation of encapsulation the use of ex…

  • Contests

    F G BaileyCHAPTERStratagems and Spoils2018

    There is a leaning in politics towards intellectual disorder, towards a calculated lack of clarity. Confrontations are messages and claims about command over political resources, about political credit: an encounter occurs when both sides agree on a version of what their relative strength is. In doladoli the exclusive use of confrontations and the form which the confrontations take makes the competitive interaction cheap. A contest was conducted …

  • Postscript to the Westview Edition

    F G BaileyCHAPTERStratagems and Spoils2018

    This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book explains how to identify political strategies, the contexts which give rise to them, and the consequences of deploying them. It offers a set of tools for understanding, in different cultural settings, not only strategies but also the part they play in political change. Regularities in social behavior can be determined, and…

  • Change

    F G BaileyCHAPTERStratagems and Spoils2018

    The seeds of change lie in the environment of a political structure. New resources may become available for use in political competition and the rules may not give sufficient guidance for their use. Some environmental changes prove irrelevant to the political structure: others are, so to speak, anticipated by the structure, which itself contains rules excluding personnel of certain categories or certain resources from the political arena. Repetit…

  • Control

    F G BaileyCHAPTERStratagems and Spoils2018

    There is a kind of pessimist who believes that those who claim to control our destinies are under an illusion. There are some acts of collusion which virtually defy normative justification and which the perpetrators are most anxious to keep secret. Collusion implies that both competitors are restraining themselves. Pragmatic collusions and normative agreements have to some extent the same significance: restraint in the interests of stability. Fro…

  • Stratagems and Spoils: A Social Anthropology of Politics

    F G BaileyBOOKStratagems and Spoils2018Cited by: 53

    In "Stratagems and Spoils: A Social Anthropology of Politics," F.G. Bailey provides a framework for understanding political behavior across different societies. He argues that political action is driven by competition for scarce resources, whether material or symbolic, and that individuals employ various strategies, or "stratagems," to achieve their goals. Bailey draws on a wide range of ethnographic examples to illustrate his points, exploring t…

  • Morality and Expediency: The Folklore of Academic Politics

    F G BaileyBOOKMorality and Expediency2017Cited by: 1

    In Morality and Expediency: The Folklore of Academic Politics, F.G. Bailey offers a wry and insightful exploration of the unwritten rules and power dynamics that govern university life. Drawing on his extensive experience in academia, Bailey examines the often-conflicting demands of morality and expediency, showing how these tensions shape the behavior of academics in their pursuit of recognition, influence, and resources. He analyzes the various…

  • Stratagems and Spoils: A Social Anthropology of Politics

    F G BaileyBOOKStratagems and Spoils2001

    "F. G. Bailey's political-anthropology text is reissued here with a postscript that comments critically on the book's scope, its reception, and its uses. First published in 1969, Stratagems and Spoils captured the imagination of scholars and students with a revealing examination of principles of political competition that operate alike in "exotic" and "developed" societies. In Bailey's analysis, Swat Pathan chiefs, cosa nostra gangsters, General …

  • The Need for Enemies: A Bestiary of Political Forms

    F G BaileyBOOKThe Need for Enemies1998

    Amid the escalating hostilities of today's world, F. G. Bailey returns to the state of Orissa in the eastern India of the 1950s to consider what held a diverse collection of people together and what drove them apart. The last of Bailey's books about Orissa, The Need for Enemies, offers a ground-level view of regional politics in South Asia in the years following independence. In doing so, the book analyzes political problems that are of universal…

  • The Civility of Indifference: On Domesticating Ethnicity

    Lukas Werth, F G BaileyARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1997Cited by: 2

  • The Witch-Hunt; or, The Triumph of Morality: Or the Triumph of Morality

    F G BaileyBOOKWitch-Hunt1996

    In the village of Bisipara in eastern India, an anthropologist is witness to a drama when a young girl takes a fever and quickly dies. The villagers find Susilla's death suspicious and fear that she was possessed. Holding an investigation to find someone to blame, they carry out a hurried inquiry because the stage must be cleared for the annual celebration of the birthday of the god Sri Ramchandro. However, they eventually agree on the identity o…

  • The Civility of Indifference: On Domesticating Ethnicity

    F G BaileyBOOKThe Civility of Indifference1996Cited by: 20

    The dissolution of Yugoslavia inspired F. G. Bailey to consider the relations among ethnic groups that had seemed reconciled to living together and then broke into murderous conflicts. For his exploration of the ancient, recurring problem of ethnic strife, Bailey considers the village of Bisipara in the state of Orissa, in eastern India. Bisipara was a community in which different ethnic groups were seen as distinct breeds of people, arranged in …

  • Transactions: Essays in Honor of Jeremy F. Boissevain

    F G Bailey, Jojada VerripsARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1995Cited by: 2

  • The Kingdom of Individuals: An Essay on Self-Respect and Social Obligation

    Alexandra Ouroussoff, F G BaileyARTICLEMan1994Cited by: 5

  • Life among Indian Tribes; The Autobiography of an Anthropologist

    F G Bailey, Christoph Von Furer-HaimendorfARTICLEAnthropological Quarterly1992

  • The Prevalence of Deceit

    Joan Vincent, F G BaileyARTICLEMan1992

  • Tertius Luctans: Idiocosm, Caricature, and Mask

    F G BaileyOTHERConflict Resolution1991

  • Why is Information Asymmetrical: Symbolic Behavior in Formal Organizations

    Open AccessF G BaileyARTICLERationality and Society1991Cited by: 3References: 3

    Much of the information that passes up and down the hierarchy in formal organizations is not of the referential kind taken for granted in theories about the interaction of principals and agents. It is less factual than it is persuasive. To have practical application, at least at the microlevel, theories of organizational behavior need to comprehend rules which govern the composition of persuasive messages; that is, they should take account of the…

  • Religion and Religiosity: Ideas and Their Use

    Open AccessF G BaileyARTICLEContributions to Indian Sociology1991Cited by: 3References: 3