Tribes without rulers : studies in African segmentary systems
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Tribes without rulers : studies in African segmentary systems
(Routledge library editions, Anthropology and ethnography)
Routledge, 2004
Available at 3 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Originally published: London: Routledge & Paul, 1958
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Recent research in Africa has shown a wide range of political systems, from small societies of wandering hunters to large states of several million people comparable with mediaeval European feudal kingdoms. In between are many societies in which a central government is lacking; the political system is based upon a balance of power between many small groups, which with their lack of classes or specialized political offices, have been called 'ordered anarchies'.
First published in 1958.
Table of Contents
1. John Middleton and David Tait, Introduction2. Laura Bohannan, Political Aspects of Tiv Social Organization3. Jean Buxton, The Mandari of the Southern Sudan4. Godfrey Lienhardt, The Western Dinka5. Edward Winter, The Aboriginal Political Structure of Bwamba6. David Tait, The Territorial Pattern and Lineage System of Konkomba7. John Middleton, The Political System of the Lugbara of the Nile-Congo Divide
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