Succession to High Office

This 1979 volume provides a general and theoretical analysis of succession in different traditional African societies.

List of contents

Contributors to this issue; Preface; 1. Introduction Jack Goody; 2. Chiefly succession in Basutoland G. I. Jones; 3. Succession to the throne in Buganda Martin Southwold; 4. Succession to the chiefship in northern Unyamwezi R. G. Abrahams; 5. Circulating succession among the Gonja Jack Goody; Bibliography; Figures.

Summary

This 1979 volume provides a general and theoretical analysis of succession in different traditional African societies. Jack Goody's introduction spells out the main ways in which systems of succession to office differ, and assesses the problem each system solves and the dilemmas it creates. This is followed by four case studies.

Product details

• Authors: Goody, Jack Goody
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.07.2010
• EAN: 9780521297325
• ISBN: 978-0-521-29732-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 287 g
• Series: Cambridge Papers in Social Ant
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)