How Societies Are Born

Governance in West Central Africa Before 1600

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

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Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such births. Hitherto neglected by historians, the rise of societies and cultures in West Central Africa is a captivating story. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: How did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years? In ""How Societies Are Born"", Vansina continues a career-long effort to reconstruct the history of African societies before European contact, employing a provocative combination of archaeology and historical linguistics to turn his scholarly focus to governance. Whether cattle, initiations, or social position, Vansina uncovers what drove each society's developmental path, revealing the fascinating motivations behind how societies are born.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2005-07-30
Mått154 x 231 x 22 mm
Vikt496 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor320
FörlagUniversity of Virginia Press
ISBN9780813922805

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Afrikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Antropologi inom Samhalle och politik

Even scholars who know better tend to assume without thinking that the people the Portuguese found had been the same since time began. - Book News, Inc. ""How Societies Are Born represents a political and agrarian history of a period and region for which absolutely no scholarly histories have been written, and Vansina possesses rare and unmatched skills in marshaling a recalcitrant and multilingual body of historical sources."" - David Schoenbrun, Northwestern University, author of A Green Place, A Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender, and Social Identity between the Great Lakes to the 15th Century