The Early state in African perspective : culture, power, and division of labor

Author(s)

• Eisenstadt, S. N. (Shmuel Noah)
• Abitbol, Michel
• Chazan, Naomi
• Universiṭah ha-ʿIvrit bi-Yerushalayim

Bibliographic Information

The Early state in African perspective : culture, power, and division of labor

edited by S.N. Eisenstadt, Michel Abitbol, Naomi Chazan

（Studies in human society, v. 3）

E.J. Brill, 1988

Note

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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Details

• NCID: BA04030801
• ISBN:
  • 9004083553
• LCCN: 87020850
• Country Code: ne
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Leiden ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: 210 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : JQ1872
  • DC19 : 320.1/096
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Africa -- Politics and government -- Congresses
  • LCSH : State, The -- Congresses
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00446761