African Political Systems Revisited : Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bošković, Aleksandar.

Contributor:

Schlee, Günther.

Series:

Integration and Conflict Studies

Integration and Conflict Studies ; v.26

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African political systems.

Indigenous peoples--Africa.

Indigenous peoples.

Political anthropology--Africa.

Political anthropology.

Tribal government--Africa.

Tribal government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2022.

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 critically reflects upon the history of anthropology. 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Chapter 1. The Right Book at the Right Time: Early Reactions and Continuing Debates

Chapter 2. African Political Systems and Political Anthropology

Chapter 3. Complementary Segmentary Opposition, Early Kingship and the Looming State: Bridging the Dichotomy of African Political Systems

Chapter 4. The Shilluk Reth: Early King or Head of State? An Inter-Nilotic Exploration

Chapter 5. A New Approach to the Political Anthropology of Africa: From African Political Systems and Tribes without Rulers via The Early State

Chapter 6. Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment in Ankole: Revisiting the Chapter by Oberg

Chapter 7. Beyond ‘African Political Systems’? The Relevance of Patrilineal Descent in Moments of Crisis in Northern Somalia

Chapter 8. Some Notes on the Tuareg (Kinin) of Northern Darfur, Sudan

Chapter 9. The Nkandla Controversy: Insights from African Political Systems

Chapter 10. Rethinking Tswana Kingships and Their Incorporation in Modern Botswana State Formation

Afterword

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

1-83695-842-0

1-80073-473-5

OCLC:

1286675037