African Political Systems Revisited : : Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power / / ed. by Aleksandar Bošković, Günther Schlee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• MitwirkendeR: Assal, Munzoul,; Bošković, Aleksandar,; Gulbrandsen, Ørnulf,; Hoehne, Markus V.,; Palmer, Robin,; Schlee, Günther,; Simonse, Simon,; Skalník, Petr,; Straight, Bilinda,
• HerausgeberIn: Kuper, Adam,; Lewis, Herbert S.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Integration and Conflict Studies ; 26
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

Reexamining a classical work of social anthropology, African Political Systems (1940), edited by Fortes and Evans-Pritchard, this book looks at the colonial and academic context from which the work arose, as well as its reception and its subject matter, and looks at how the work can help with analysis of current politics in Africa. This book critically reflects upon the history of anthropology. It also contributes to a political anthropology which is aware of its antecedents, self-reflexive as a discipline, conscious of pitfalls and biases, and able to locate itself in its academic, social and political environment.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Chapter 1. The Right Book at the Right Time: Early Reactions and Continuing Debates -- Chapter 2. African Political Systems and Political Anthropology -- Chapter 3. Complementary Segmentary Opposition, Early Kingship and the Looming State: Bridging the Dichotomy of African Political Systems -- Chapter 4. The Shilluk Reth: Early King or Head of State? An Inter-Nilotic Exploration -- Chapter 5. A New Approach to the Political Anthropology of Africa: From African Political Systems and Tribes without Rulers via The Early State -- Chapter 6. Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment in Ankole: Revisiting the Chapter by Oberg -- Chapter 7. Beyond ‘African Political Systems’? The Relevance of Patrilineal Descent in Moments of Crisis in Northern Somalia -- Chapter 8. Some Notes on the Tuareg (Kinin) of Northern Darfur, Sudan -- Chapter 9. The Nkandla Controversy: Insights from African Political Systems -- Chapter 10. Rethinking Tswana Kingships and Their Incorporation in Modern Botswana State Formation -- Afterword -- Index