The Imbalance of Power

<ul> <li> Demonstrates ethnographically that the Carib speaking indigenous societies of the Guiana region of Amazonia do not fit conventional characterizations of ‘simple’ political units with ‘egalitarian’ political ideologies and ‘harmonious’ relationships with nature.</li> <li> The author builds a persuasive and original theory of Amerindian politics: far from balanced and egalitarian Carib societies are rife with tension and difference.</li></ul>