...structures," we very often have in mind roles of these kinds, and the relationships formed among them. "The anthropologist has a professional license to...to the major strategic, overarching institutions," Eric Wolf (1966:2) has proposed. We have indeed come upon them repeatedly. Thrasher's interpretation...

...organization was prominent in the anthropological study of complex societies. As fEric Wolf (1966: 2) put it, 'the anthropologist has a professional license...to the major strategic, overarching institutions'. The study of *household and *kinship had a part here, hut especially characteristic were the increased...

...concentrations of sovereign power — while other political regions appear as gray or white. We thus note that the formal framework of economic and political power...intermingled with various other kinds of informal structures that are interstitial, supplementary, or parallel to it. Even the study of major institutions,...