Anthropology and Social Change

Informationen zum Autor Lucy P. Mair (Author) Klappentext Focusing mainly on Africa, collected essays on land tenure, chieftainship, clientship, race, tribalism and nationalism. Zusammenfassung The fourteen lectures and essays that make up this volume deal mainly, though not exclusively, with Africa, and among the topics discussed are land tenure, chieftainship, 'clientship', messianic movement, witchcraft, and 'race, tribalism and nationalism'. Inhaltsverzeichnis INTRODUCTION I I. APPLIED ANTHROPOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT POLICIES (1956) 10 2. ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE UNDERDEVELOPED TERRITORIES (1950) 28 3. MODERN DEVELOPMENTS IN AFRICAN LAND TENURE (1948) 44 4. THE CONTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY TO THE STUDY OF CHANGES IN AFRICAN LAND RIGHTS (1956) 53 5. CHIEFTAINSHIP IN MODERN AFRICA (1936) 65 6. AFRICAN CHIEFS TODAY (1958) 75 7. OLD AND NEW LEADERSHIP IN AFRICA (1962) 91 8. RACE, TRIBALISM AND NATIONALISM IN AFRICA (1959) 100 9. SELF-GOVERNMENT OR GOOD GOVERNMENT? (1948) III 10. HOW SMALL-SCALE SOCIETIES CHANGE (1964) 120 II. TRADITION AND MODERNITY IN THE NEW AFRICA (1965) 135 12. INDEPENDENT RELIGIOUS MOVEMENTS IN THREE CONTINENTS (1959) 144 13. CLIENTSHIP IN EAST AFRICA (1961) 173 14. WITCHCRAFT AS A PROBLEM IN THE STUDY OF RELIGION (1964) 185

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• Authors: L. Mair, Lucy Mair, Lucy P Mair, Lucy P. Mair
• Assisted by: Laura Bear (Editor)
• Publisher: Black A&C Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2008
• EAN: 9781859738542
• ISBN: 978-1-85973-854-2
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: London School of Economics Mon; London School of Economics Mon; LSE Monographs on Social Anthropology; Lse Monographs on Social Anthr
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories