Pomo Social Structure: Problems of Ethnohistory

Kunkel's (1974) article on "Pomo kin groups" and Kronenfeld's response, in this issue (Kronenfeld 1975), bring to the fore once more the interesting problem of the ethnohistory of social structure. Kronenfeld is quite apt in his comparison with the Nuer whose residential groupings and seasonal movements do not exactly reflect the fact that the Nuer use the metaphor of unilineal kinship to describe and understand their own socio-political organization. Kunkel seems to have confused social organization for social structure and while he has much of the former type of data in hand the latter only seems to have existed in the minds of long deceased Pomo for it was not recorded by ethnographers or other reporters

Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land: Power and Inequality in Rural Ethnic China

Review of: Xianghong Feng. 2017. Tourism and Prosperity in Miao Land: Power and Inequality in Rural Ethnic China. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. xxvi + 183 pp. US$ 90.00. ISBN 978-1-4985-0995-4

1, 2, 3, 4... Anthropology and the Fourth World

The term the Fourth World comprizes those native peoples whose lands and cultures have been engulfed by the nations of the First, Second and Third Worlds. Parallelling the usage of the term Third World, this term has come into use in the past ten years by scholars interested in the political status of indigenous people in “internal colonies”, and by the leaders of the minority peoples themselves, such as the Dene and the Lapps. This paper discusses (a) the sources of the term, (b) its range of meaning and relation to the term Third World, (c) the consciousness and political reality of the Fourth World, and (d) the problems and usage of the term in anthropology.On entend par quart-monde les populations autochtones dont le territoire et la culture ont été envahis par les pays capitalistes développés, les pays socialistes et les pays du tiers-monde. S’ajoutant au terme tiers-monde, cette expression a été utilisée au cours des dix dernières années par les universitaires préoccupés du statut politique des autochtones des « colonies internes » ainsi que par les propres dirigeants de ces peuples minoritaires : Les Déné et les Lapons par exemple. Ce résumé en quatre volets traite d’abord (a) des origines de l’expression quart-monde, (b) de ses différentes interprétations et de son sens par rapport au terme tiers-monde, (c) de l’éveil et de la réalité politique du quart-monde et enfin, (d) des problèmes que soulève cette expression et son utilisation en anthropologie

Pomo Social Structure: Problems of Ethnohistory

Kunkel's (1974) article on "Pomo kin groups" and Kronenfeld's response, in this issue (Kronenfeld 1975), bring to the fore once more the interesting problem of the ethnohistory of social structure. Kronenfeld is quite apt in his comparison with the Nuer whose residential groupings and seasonal movements do not exactly reflect the fact that the Nuer use the metaphor of unilineal kinship to describe and understand their own socio-political organization. Kunkel seems to have confused social organization for social structure and while he has much of the former type of data in hand the latter only seems to have existed in the minds of long deceased Pomo for it was not recorded by ethnographers or other reporters