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How societies are born : governance in West Central Africa before 1600 / Jan Vansina.
- Title
- How societies are born : governance in West Central Africa before 1600 / Jan Vansina.
- Author
- Vansina, Jan.
- Publication
- Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
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- Description
- xiv, 325 p. : maps; 25 cm.
- Summary
- Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. 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?
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-309) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- 1. Preludes -- Late-stone age foragers -- Of pots, fields, and flocks -- Proto-Njila speakers and their society -- The dissemination of the Njila languages and its consequences -- Metallurgy -- Toward the formation of West Central Africa -- 2. Early village societies, 700-1000 -- Divuyu -- Agriculture -- Bovine cattle -- Overarching institutions : corporate matrilineages and dispersed matriclans -- Becoming food producers -- 3. Of water, cattle, and kings -- Nqoma -- Cattle nomads and their societies -- Agropastoralists -- Networks -- History, environment, and collective imagination -- 4. Of courts and titleholders -- Feti : an Angolan Zimbabwe? -- Principalities on the planalto -- An inner African frontier.
- ISBN
- 0813922798 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0813922801
- LCCN
- ^^2004001001
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library