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Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa.

These essays are mainly concerned with the development of some of Max Gluckman's ideas about African politics. He regarded frequent rebellions to replace incumbents of political offices (as against revolutions to alter the structure of offices) as inherent in these politics. Later he connected...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Gluckman, Max
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface; Introduction; I. An Advance in African Sociology; II. Succession and Civil War among the Bemba
  • An Exercise in Anthropological Theory; III. Rituals of Rebellion in South-East Africa; IV. The Magic of Despair; V. The Village Headman in British Central Africa (with J.C. Mitchell and J.A. Barnes); VI. Chief and Native Commissioner in Modern Zululand; VII. The Reasonable Man in Barotse Law; VIII. Malinowski's 'Functional' Analysis of Social Change; IX. Malinowski's Contribution to Social Anthropology; X. Malinowski-Fieldworker and Theorist.