The Early state in African perspective : culture, power, and division of labor
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The Early state in African perspective : culture, power, and division of labor
(Studies in human society, v. 3)
E.J. Brill, 1988
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Based on an interdisciplinary research seminar on "The Early state in Africa", conducted during the 1979-1980 academic year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The essays in this volume are the product of an interdisciplinary research seminar on "The Early State in Africa", conducted during the 1979-1980 academic year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This seminar was one of a series of seminars on comparative civilizations. The participants included historians, sociologists, political scientists, and specialists in comparative religion, who shared an interest in the emergence and dynamics of the state in Africa and were concerned with trying to understand its origins and its various manifestations on the continent.
Table of Contents
Preface, S.N. Eisenstadt, Michel Aitbol and Naomi Chazan
Acknowledgements
The Origins of the State Reconsidered, S.N. Eisenstadt, Michel Abitbol and Naomi Chazan
Myths and Politics in Precolonial Africa, Naomi Chazan and Michel Abitbol
The Early State in Africa: The Asante Case, Naomi Chazan
Islam and State Formation in West Africa, Nehemia Levtzion
Maraboutism and State Formation in Southern Morocco, Michel Abitbol
Christianity and the Early State in Ethiapia, Steven Kaplan
State Formation in Africa, Conclusions, S.N. Eisenstadt, Michel Abitbol and Naomi Chazan
Contributors
Index
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