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?

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Vansina, Jan (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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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