Abstract
Psychoanalytically oriented social scientists have proposed a “projective” view of the political system in which early family relationships serve as models for adult political behavior. Anthropological field reports indicate that the extension of the family idiom to political relationships is widespread in non-Western cultures, particularly those with stateless political systems. Here the author proposes to show the relevance of social-psychological theories to political anthropology, indicating that cross-cultural testing of the derived hypotheses is feasible using available ethnographic evidence.
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