Research Catalog

Title

African political systems revisited : changing perspectives on statehood and power / edited by Aleksandar Bošković and Günther Schlee.

Publication

• New York : Berghahn Books, 2022.
• ©2022

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Details

Additional Authors

• Bošković, Aleksandar
• Schlee, Günther

Description

xxi, 256 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

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"--

Series Statement

Integration and conflict studies ; volume 26

Uniform Title

Integration and conflict studies ; v. 26.

Subject

• African political systems
• Political anthropology > Africa
• Indigenous peoples > Africa
• Tribal government > Africa
• Indigenous peoples
• Political anthropology
• Tribal government
• Africa

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Adam Kuper -- The Right Book at the Right Time: Early Reactions and Continuing Debates / Aleksandar Bošković -- African Political Systems and Political Anthropology / Herbert S. Lewis -- Complementary Segmentary Opposition, Early Kingship and the Looming State: Bridging the Dichotomy of African Political Systems / Simon Simonse -- The Shilluk reth: Early King or Head of State? An Inter-Nilotic Exploration / Simon Simonse -- From African Political Systems and Tribes Without Rulers via The Early State towards a New Approach to the Political Anthropology of Africa / Petr Skalník -- Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment in Ankole: Revisiting the Chapter by Oberg / Günther Schlee -- Beyond African Political Systems? The Relevance of Patrilineal Descent in Moments of Crisis in Northern Somalia / Markus V. Hoehne -- Some Notes on the Tuareg (Kinin) of Northern Darfur / Munzoul Assal -- The Nkandla Controversy: Insights from African Political Systems / Robin Palmer -- Rethinking Tswana Kingships and Their Incorporation in Modern Botswana State Formation / Ørnulf Gulbrandsen -- Afterword / Bilinda Straight.

Call Number

Sc E 22-1203

ISBN

• 9781800734722
• 1800734727

LCCN

2021052747

OCLC

1286675409

Title

African political systems revisited : changing perspectives on statehood and power / edited by Aleksandar Bošković and Günther Schlee.

Publisher

New York : Berghahn Books, 2022.

Copyright Date

©2022

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Integration and conflict studies ; volume 26

Integration and conflict studies ; v. 26.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Bošković, Aleksandar, editor, author.

Schlee, Günther, editor, author.

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-1203