Egalitarian Societies

1982/09/01 by James Woodburn · 903 citations
Social Sciences · #Political Economy and Marxism #Political science #Sociology

paper · doi:10.2307/2801707

published in Man 17(3), 431-110 (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland)

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