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Contents

Introduction: Hierarchy and Value
Naomi Haynes and Jason Hickel

Chapter 1. Battle of Cosmologies: The Catholic Church, Adat, and ‘Inculturation’ among Northern Lio, Indonesia
Signe Howell

Chapter 2. Vertical Love: Forms of Submission and Top-Down Power in Orthodox Ethiopia
Diego Maria Malara and Tom Boylston

Chapter 3. The Good, the Bad, and the Dead: The Place of Destruction in the Organization of Social Life, Which Means Hierarchy
Frederick H. Damon

Chapter 4. Civilization, Hierarchy, and Political-Economic Inequality
Stephan Feuchtwang

Chapter 5. Islam and Pious Sociality: The Ethics of Hierarchy in the Tablighi Jamaat in Pakistan
Arsalan Khan

Chapter 6. Demotion as Value: Rank Infraction among the Ngadha in Flores, Indonesia
Olaf H. Smedal

Afterword: The Rise of Hierarchy
David Graeber

Hierarchy and Value

Comparative Perspectives on Moral Order

Edited by Jason Hickel and Naomi Haynes
Afterword by David Graeber

170 pages, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78533-996-7 Hb Published (August 2018)

eISBN 978-1-78533-998-1 eBook