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100			_aBailey, F G
245		0	_aStratagems and Spoils _b: A Social Anthropology of Politics _c/ Bailey F G
260			_aLondon _b : Blackwell _c,1969
300			_a240 p.
520			_aF.G. Bailey’s classic 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 de Gaulle, and the Untouchables in a rural Indian village (for example) are shown employing similar strategies, both effective and ineffective, to win and hold followers while eroding the support of their opponents. Provocative and insightful, Stratagems and Spoils provides a conceptual toolkit for analyzing, in any culture, the rules that regulate political contests and determine who will win and who will lose.
650			_aPolitics
650			_aAnthropology
650			_aSociology
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