Beyond Chiefdoms - Pathways to Complexity in Africa

Zusammenfassung Criticising the popular view about the progressive development of powerful hierarchies led by chiefs and kings! this book offers evidence from case studies in sub-Saharan Africa supporting the idea that complexity has emerged and developed in a variety of ways. It includes contributions from historians! archaeologists! and anthropologists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Pathways to complexity: an African perspective Susan Keech McIntosh; 2. The segmentary state and the ritual phase in political economy Aidan Southall; 3. Perceiving variability in time and space: the evolutionary mapping of African societies Ann B. Stahl; 4. Western representations of urbanism and invisible African towns Roderick J. McIntosh; 5. Modelling political organization in large scale settlement clusters: a case study from the inland Niger Delta Susan Keech McIntosh; 6. Sacred centres and urbanisation in West Central Africa Raymond N. Asombang; 7. Permutations in patrimonialism and populism: the Aghem chiefdoms of Western Cameroon Igor Kopytoff; 8. Wonderful society: the Burgess shale creatures, Mandara polities, and the nature of prehistory Nicholas David and Judy Sterner; 9. Material culture and the dialectics of identity in the Kalahari: AD 700-1700 James Denbow; 10. Seeking and keeping power in Bunyora-Kitara, Uganda Peter Robertshaw; 11. The (in)visible roots of Bunyoro-Kitara and Buganda in the Lakes Region: 800-1300 David L. Schoenbrun; 12. The power of symbols and the symbols of power through time: probing the Luba past Pierre de Maret; 13. Pathways of political development in Equatorial Africa and neo-evolutionary theory Jan Vansina.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Susan Keech Mcintosh, Susan Keech (Rice University Mcintosh
• Con la collaborazione di: Wendy Ashmore (Editore), Francoise Audouze (Editore), Susan Keech Mcintosh (Editore), McIntosh Susan Keech (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 10.11.2005
• EAN: 9780521022699
• ISBN: 978-0-521-02269-9
• Pagine: 188
• Serie: New Directions in Archaeology; New Directions in Archaeology
• Categorie: Saggistica > Politica, società, economia > Politica; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Preistoria e protostoria; Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General