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  • African Political Systems

    by Meyer Fortes ...
    One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthropologists. We also hope that it will be a contribution to the discipline of comparative politics. We feel sure that the first object has been attained, for the societies described are representative of common types of African political systems and, taken together, they enable a student to appreciate the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi

    The Second Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe

    by Meyer Fortes ...
    Series series African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
    Originally published in 1949, this book takes the analysis of Tale social structure further. It shows how the patriarchal principle regulates domestic life and thus moulds individual development among the Tallensi. The analysis of the inter-connexion of Legal, econoic and personal relationships sheds new light on the general problems of social organization in patriarchal societies, both in Africa ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Kinship and the Social Order.

    The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan

    by Meyer Fortes ...
    Originally published in the UK in 1970. The central argument of this book is that the structuralist theory and method developed by British and American anthropologists in the study of kinship and social organization are the direct descendants of the researches of Lewis Henry Morgan. Re-examining Morgan's work, the book demonstrates how a tradition of mis-interpretation has disguised the true ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Kinship and the Social Order

    The Legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan

    by Meyer Fortes ...
    One of the world's most eminent social anthropologists draws upon his many years of study and research in the field of kinship and social organization to review the development of anthropological theory and method from Lewis Henry Morgan (1818-1881) to anthropologists of the 1960s. It is the central argument of this book that the structuralist theory and method developed by British and American ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi

    Being the First Part of an Analysis of the Social Structure of a Trans-Volta Tribe

    by Meyer Fortes ...
    Series series African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
    Originally published in 1945, this book analyses Tale social structure at the level of corporate group organization. Tale culture is discussed primarily as the content of social relations and not in its own right. Customs, beliefs, conventional usages, religious values are examined as indices of social relations. Although not a comparative study, it is clear that many features of Tale social ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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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

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  • 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

  • The Evolution of Culture

    The Development of Civilization to the Fall of Rome

    by Leslie A White ...
    One of the major works of twentieth-century anthropological theory, written by one of the discipline’s most important, complex, and controversial figures, has not been in print for several years. Now Evolution of Culture is again available in paperback, allowing today’s generation of anthropologists new access to Leslie White’s crucial contribution to the theory of cultural evolution. A new, ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Freedom and Civilization

    by Bronislaw Malinowski ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    From the early days of Hitler’s rise to power, Bronislaw Malinowski was an outspoken opponent of National Socialism. In response to this, Malinowski began to devote much attention to the analysis of war, from its development throughout history to its disastrous manifestations at the start of the Second World War.Freedom and Civilization, first published in 1947, is the final expression of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Freedom and Civilization

    by Bronislaw Malinowski ...
    This antiquarian book contains Bronislaw Malinowski's seminal treatise on civilisation and the notion of freedom. During World War Two, Malinowski became more and more obsessed with analysing world issues and the possible consequences of a totalitarian victory. As the war progressed, Malinowski also became preoccupied with the problems of peace and settlement, and was motivated to write this book, ... Read more

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  • Democracy in America

    And Two Essays on America

    by Alexis Tocqueville ...
    Translated by Gerald Bevan ...
    One of the most influential political texts ever written on America, and an indispensable authority on the nature of democracyIn 1831 Alexis de Tocqueville, a young French aristocrat and civil servant, made a nine-month journey through eastern America. The result was Democracy in America, a monumental study of the strengths and weaknesses of the nation's evolving politics. Tocqueville looked to ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Invention Of Women

    Making An African Sense Of Western Gender Discourses

    by Oyeronke Oyewumi ...
    The “woman question,” this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western construction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Author Oyeronke Oyewumi reveals an ideology of biological determinism at the heart of Western social categories-the idea that biology provides ... Read more

    $17.29 USD