出版社：Department of Anthropology, University of Durham
摘要：Among the most influential theories of political resistance is that of the American political theorist, James C. Scott. Drawing on Scott‘s influential theoretical paradigm I present an historical anthropology of seventeenth century Quakerism, focusing on this religious movement from its genesis in around 1650, to the Act of Toleration in 1689. My intention is to draw on accounts of early Quaker faith and practice in order to interrogate key components of Scott‘s thesis. I conclude that despite the undoubted usefulness of Scott‘s work it is at once both too broad and too narrow and that it should be tested against other, apparently 'marginal‘, cases.
