Screen LibraryAfrican political systems revisited : changing perspectives on statehood and power /
"Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject matter and looks at how the work can help with a...
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| Published: |
Berghahn Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York, NY : |
| Publication Dates: | 2022. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Integration and conflict studies ;
volume 26 |
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| Summary: |
"Reexamining a classical work of Social Anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject matter and looks at how the work can help with analysis of current politics in Africa. This book contributes to the history of anthropology, which is critically reflected upon. It also contributes to a political anthropology which is aware of its antecedents, self-reflexive as a discipline, conscious of pitfalls and biases, and able to locate itself in its academic, social and political environment"-- |
| Carrier Form: | xxi, 256 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781800734722 1800734727 |
| Index Number: | GN492 |
| CLC: | D74-05 |
| Call Number: | D74-05/A258 |
| Contents: |
Foreword / The Right Book at the Right Time: Early Reactions and Continuing Debates / African Political Systems and Political Anthropology / Complementary Segmentary Opposition, Early Kingship and the Looming State: Bridging the Dichotomy of African Political Systems / The Shilluk reth: Early King or Head of State? An Inter-Nilotic Exploration / From African Political Systems and Tribes Without Rulers via The Early State towards a New Approach to the Political Anthropology of Africa / Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment in Ankole: Revisiting the Chapter by Oberg / Beyond African Political Systems? The Relevance of Patrilineal Descent in Moments of Crisis in Northern Somalia / Some Notes on the Tuareg (Kinin) of Northern Darfur / The Nkandla Controversy: Insights from African Political Systems / Rethinking Tswana Kingships and Their Incorporation in Modern Botswana State Formation / Afterword / |