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  • Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society

    by Max Gluckman ...
    What can we learn from tribal societies about the ways in which, in a variety of social settings, groups of men resolve their conflicts with other men? In order to answer this question, Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society compares nearly forty case study societies, most of them in Africa, in their reconstructed pre-colonial tribal condition, comparing their small-scale social relations to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa

    by Max Gluckman ...
    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 this situation with modes of husbandry, problems of the devolution of power, types of weapons and the law ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Clinical Psychology

    The Study of Personality and Behavior

    Edited by Sol L. Garfield, Max Gluckman ...
    Interest in clinical psychology has been growing as indicated by large numbers of undergraduates applying for admission to graduate programs and the professional degrees granted. This book is written for anyone with a strong interest in clinical psychology, but also provides a comprehensive and realistic view of the field.The book, therefore, can serve as a reference for courses in clinical ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law

    Studies Presented and Discussed at the Eighth International African Seminar at the Haile Sellassie I University, Addis Ababa, January 1966

    Edited by Max Gluckman ...
    Series series African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
    The 18 papers in this volume, originally published in 1969 in English and French, with summaries in the other language, define and analyze in their wider social contexts the fundamental ideas and procedures to be found in African traditional systems of law. They assess the needs and problems of adaptation to changing conditions. The comprehensive introduction by Allott, Epsteina nd Gluckman ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • W.E.H. Stanner

    Selected Writings

    by W.E.H. Stanner ...
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  • The Small Voice of History

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  • African Political Systems

    by Meyer Fortes ...
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  • Order and Dispute: An Introduction to Legal Anthropology

    by Simon Roberts ...
    Classic resource in the modern study of legal anthropology, this acclaimed book is now available in an updated, expanded Second Edition. There are many societies that survive in a remarkably orderly fashion without the aid of judges, courts and police. Roberts contends that legal theory has become too closely identified with our own arrangements to be of use in understanding other legal systems. ... Read more

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    Literary Study and British Rule in India

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  • Chiefs, Priests, and Praise-Singers

    History, Politics, and Land Ownership in Northern Ghana

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