Del 26 i serien Integration and Conflict Studies

African Political Systems Revisited

Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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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.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-04-01
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt560 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieIntegration and Conflict Studies
Antal sidor278
FörlagBerghahn Books
ISBN9781800734722

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Aleksandar Bošković is Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Archaeology in Belgrade and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Belgrade. His books include William Robertson Smith (Berghahn Books, 2021), Mesoamerican Religions and Archaeology (Archaeopress, 2017) and Other People’s Anthropologies (Berghahn Books, 2008, editor).Günther Schlee is one of the Founding Directors of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Prior to this appointment he was until 1999 Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bielefeld. His main publications include Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya (Manchester University Press, 1989) and How Enemies Are Made: Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict (Berghahn Books, 2008).

List of IllustrationsForewordAdam KuperChapter 1. The Right Book at the Right Time DebatesAleksandar BoškovićChapter 2. African Political Systems and Political AnthropologyHerbert LewisChapter 3. Complementary Segmentary OppositionSimon SimonseChapter 4. The Shilluk rethSimon SimonseChapter 5. From African Political Systems towards a New ApproachPetr SkalníkChapter 6. Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment in AnkoleGünther SchleeChapter 7. Beyond African Political Systems?Markus V. HoehneChapter 8. Some Notes on the Tuareg (Kinin) of Northern DarfurMunzoul AssalChapter 9. The Nkandla Controversy: Insights from African Political SystemsRobin PalmerChapter 10. Tswana kingship and its incorporation in modern state formationØrnulf GulbrandsenAfterwordBilinda StraightInde