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Author Middleton, John

Title Tribes Without Rulers : Studies in African Segmentary Systems
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (369 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Foreword to the 1970 Impression; Preface; Introduction; Political Aspects of TIV Social Organization; The Mandari of the Southern Sudan; The Western Dinka; The Aboriginal Political Structure of Bwamba; The Territorial Pattern and Lineage System of Konkomba; The Political System of the Lugbara of the Nile-Congo Divide; Index
Summary Recent research in Africa has shown a wide range of political systems, from small societies of wandering hunters to large states of several million people comparable with mediaeval European feudal kingdoms. In between are many societies in which a central government is lacking; the political system is based upon a balance of power between many small groups, which with their lack of classes or specialized political offices, have been called 'ordered anarchies'. First published in 1958
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Subject Political anthropology.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Political anthropology
Form Electronic book
Author Tait, David
ISBN 9781136532139
1136532137