African Political Systems Revisited

Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power

Aleksandar Bošković, Günther Schlee (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-472-2 (ISBN)

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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 contributes to the history of anthropology, which is critically reflected upon. 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.

Aleksandar Bošković is Senior Research Scientist at the Institute of Archaeology in Belgrade and Professor of Anthropology at the University of 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). Günther Schlee is one of the Founding Directors of the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany. Prior to this appointment he was until 1999 Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Bielefeld. His main publications include Identities on the Move: Clanship and Pastoralism in Northern Kenya (Manchester University Press, 1989) and How Enemies Are Made: Towards a Theory of Ethnic and Religious Conflict (Berghahn Books, 2008).

List of Illustrations

Foreword

Adam Kuper

Chapter 1. The Right Book at the Right Time Debates

Aleksandar Bošković

Chapter 2. African Political Systems and Political Anthropology

Herbert Lewis

Chapter 3. Complementary Segmentary Opposition

Simon Simonse

Chapter 4. The Shilluk reth

Simon Simonse

Chapter 5. From African Political Systems towards a New Approach

Petr Skalník

Chapter 6. Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment in Ankole

Günther Schlee

Chapter 7. Beyond African Political Systems?

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. Tswana kingship and its incorporation in modern state formation

Ørnulf Gulbrandsen

Afterword

Bilinda Straight

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Erscheinungsdatum	15.03.2022
Reihe/Serie	Integration and Conflict Studies ; 26
Zusatzinfo	10 illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-472-7 / 1800734727
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-472-2 / 9781800734722
Zustand	Neuware