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
Main Author: Vansina, Jan (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Tribal groups.
Administration (government)
Soziales System
Stammesgesellschaft
Gesellschaftsordnung
Tribal government.
Politics and government
Political anthropology.
HISTORY > Africa > South > Republic of South Africa.
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
1000-1999.
0-999.
history.
political systems.
society.
ethnogenesis.
Central Africa.
Anthropologie politique > Afrique subsaharienne.
Gouvernement tribal > Afrique subsaharienne.
Political anthropology > Africa, Central.
Political anthropology > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Tribal government > Africa, Central.
Tribal government > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
West Africa.
Zentralafrika > West
Sub-Saharan Africa.
Afrique centrale > Politique et gouvernement.
Afrique subsaharienne > Politique et gouvernement.
Africa, Central > Politics and government.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Politics and government.
History (form)
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo

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