Aleksandar Bošković & Günther Schlee 
African Political Systems Revisited [PDF ebook] 
Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power

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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 critically reflects upon the history of anthropology. 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.

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Foreword
Adam Kuper

Chapter 1. The Right Book at the Right Time: Early Reactions and Continuing Debates
Aleksandar Bošković

Chapter 2. African Political Systems and Political Anthropology
Herbert S. Lewis

Chapter 3. Complementary Segmentary Opposition, Early Kingship and the Looming State: Bridging the Dichotomy of African Political Systems
Simon Simonse

Chapter 4. The Shilluk reth: Early King or Head of State? An Inter-Nilotic Exploration
Simon Simonse

Chapter 5. From African Political Systems and Tribes Without Rulers via The Early State towards a New Approach to the Political Anthropology of Africa
Petr Skalník

Chapter 6. Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment in Ankole: Revisiting the Chapter by Oberg
Günther Schlee

Chapter 7. Beyond African Political Systems? The Relevance of Patrilineal Descent in Moments of Crisis in Northern Somalia
Markus V. Hoehne

Chapter 8. Some Notes on the Tuareg (Kinin) of Northern Darfur
Munzoul Assal

Chapter 9. The Nkandla Controversy: Insights from African Political Systems
Robin Palmer

Chapter 10. Rethinking Tswana Kingships and Their Incorporation in Modern Botswana State Formation
Ørnulf Gulbrandsen

Afterword
Bilinda Straight

Index

A propos de l’auteur


Aleksandar Bošković is Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Archaeology in Belgrade. His books include William Robertson Smith (Berghahn Books, 2021), Mesoamerican Religions and Archaeology (Archaeopress, 2017) and Other People’s Anthropologies (Berghahn Books, 2008, editor).

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