The Kuna Gathering: Contemporary Village Politics in Panama, 2nd ed.
James Howe
Paperback, 6x9 in, xvi, 326 pages
Fenestra Books, July 2002
ISBN:
1587361116
Reviews
The appearance of ... The Kuna Gathering ... confirms my belief that meetings (finally) are beginning to emerge as an important topic of anthropological analysis ... [It is] one of the few full-scale ethnographies of a society examined from the standpoint of its meetings.... This is an important study because it provides us with the best example yet of what we can learn when we approach a cultural and social system through the events that participants use to both constitute and act within it.
--Helen Schwartzman, in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities
In The Kuna Gathering, Howe provides us with a vivid ... microview of Kuna village-level politics while at the same time judiciously attending to a broad range of issues of current concern in political anthropology and political science. [It is] a valuable study of politics in small-scale societies--and a pleasure to read.
--Philip Young, The American Political Science Review
About the author
James Howe is professor of anthropology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Also by James Howe: A People Who Would Not Kneel: Panama, the United States and the San Blas Kuna, Smithsonian Institution Press.
