Dynamics of Political Domination in Africa - An Axel Sommerfelt Collection

Axel Sommerfelt has been an important influence on Norwegian and Scandinavian anthropology, but his contributions are almost unknown. This book brings together some of his critical writings, newly written articles and an interview which positions him in the history of 'North Sea' social anthropology and shows his continued relevance. An Africanist, Sommerfelt did research in Ruwenzori (Uganda and Belgian Congo), but also wrote about the Tallensi (Ghana) and worked for years in Salisbury (Harare) before being evicted by Ian Smith's racist regime in 1966. His contributions to political anthropology, methodology and legal anthropology have a lasting value.

About the author

Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962-2024) was Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo. He was an honorary member of the Royal Anthropological Institute and external scientific member of the Max Planck Society. His recent books include Boomtown (2018) Acceleration and Cultural Change (2023) and the co-edited Responding to the Anthropocene (2023).

Marek Jakoubek is Associate Professor at University of Pardubice and University of Hradec Králové.

Tone Sommerfelt is Senior Researcher at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Her research focuses on changing kinship and marriage practices, mobility, moral politics of ethnicity and religion, and the ethnography of West Africa (Gambia, Ghana, Mali).

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Hylland Jakoubek Eriksen
• Assisted by: Thomas Hylland Eriksen (Editor), Eriksen Thomas Hylland (Editor), Marek Jakoubek (Editor), Tone Sommerfelt (Editor)
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.03.2024
• EAN: 9781805392897
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-289-7
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Methodology & History in Anthropology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, Africa, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social discrimination & inequality, Social and cultural anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state, Social discrimination and social justice, Theory and Methodology; Anthropology (General)