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Georges Balandier In anthropological thermodynamics, Georges Balandier (1920-) is French anthropologist noted his use of entropy in anthropology and for his 1967 postulate that: [1]

Power may be defined, for every society, as resulting from the need to struggle against the entropy that threatens it with disorder.”

References
1. (a) Balandier, Georges. (1967). Anthropologie politique. Paris.
(b) Balandier, Georges. (1970). Political Anthropology. Allen Lane.
(c) Adams, Richard N. (1975). Energy and Structure: a Theory of Social Power (pg. 6). Austin: University of Texas Press.

External links
Georges Balandier – Wikipedia.
Georges Balandier – Wikipedia (French → English).

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