i-iv -- General Editor's Preface -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- PART ONE: Theory -- Political Anthropology: Issues and Trends on the Frontier -- New Directions in Political Anthropology: The Use of Corporate Models for the Analysis of Political Organizations -- PART TWO: Centers and Peripheries -- Patron-Client Structure in Modern World Organization -- Local-Level Politics and Social Change in Tigre: A Transactional Analysis of Adaptive Change -- The Duke had a Word for it: Local-Level Competition Between Tribals and Non-Tribals -- Tribute Relations -- The Promotion of Suzerainty Between Sedentary and Nomadic Populations in Eastern Ethiopia -- PART THREE: Authority and Power -- On the Forms of Disintegration of the Clan Society of North American Indians -- The Balance of Power in Primitive States -- The Dynamics of Early State Development in the Voltaic Area -- Citizenship and Sources of Political Authority in the Marianas -- Change in Rank and Status in the Polynesian Kingdom of Tonga -- Law and Negative Sanctions in African Societies -- PART FOUR: Political Culture -- Ritual in Consensual Power Relations: The Israel Labor Party -- Peasant Political Cognition: A Methodological Perspective -- Three Tiwa Communities and Their Response to Stress for Change -- A Comparative Analysis of U.S. and Slovenian Sociopolitical Frames of Reference -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects