How societies are born : governance in West Central Africa before 1600 /

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Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: how did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years?

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Vansina, Jan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
Series:ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subjects:
Tribal government > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Tribal government > Africa, Central.
Political anthropology > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Political anthropology > Africa, Central.
Gouvernement tribal > Afrique subsaharienne.
Anthropologie politique > Afrique subsaharienne.
Central Africa.
ethnogenesis.
society.
political systems.
history.
0-999.
1000-1999.
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
HISTORY > Africa > South > Republic of South Africa.
Political anthropology.
Politics and government
Tribal government.
Gesellschaftsordnung
Stammesgesellschaft
Soziales System
Administration (government)
Tribal groups.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Politics and government.
Africa, Central > Politics and government.
Afrique subsaharienne > Politique et gouvernement.
Afrique centrale > Politique et gouvernement.
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Zentralafrika > West
West Africa.
History (form)
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Preludes
  • Late-stone age foragers
  • Of pots, fields, and flocks
  • Proto-Njila speakers and their society
  • The dissemination of the Njila languages and its consequences
  • Metallurgy
  • Toward the formation of West Central Africa
  • 2. Early village societies, 700-1000
  • Divuyu
  • Agriculture
  • Bovine cattle
  • Overarching institutions : corporate matrilineages and dispersed matriclans
  • Becoming food producers
  • 3. Of water, cattle, and kings
  • Nqoma
  • Cattle nomads and their societies
  • Agropastoralists
  • Networks
  • History, environment, and collective imagination
  • 4. Of courts and titleholders
  • Feti : an Angolan Zimbabwe?
  • Principalities on the planalto
  • An inner African frontier.

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