The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi
Author: Meyer Fortes
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Published: 1945
Total Pages: 318
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The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi
Author: Meyer Fortes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-08-16
Total Pages: 473
ISBN-13: 042995428X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally 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 organization are typical of patrilineal societies in West Africa and some Tale institutions have parallels in South, East, and Central Africa. Field work showed that every significant social activity among the Tallensi is tied up with the lineage system and the book therefore investigates the function of lineage in Tale social organization.
The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi
Author: M. Fortes
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Published: 1945
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Author: Meyer Fortes
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Published: 1969
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Author: Meyer Fortes
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Published: 1969
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9789062340132
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Invention of Primitive Society
Author: Adam Kuper
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780415009034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoth a critical history of anthropological theory and methods and a challenging essay in the sociology of science, The Invention of Primitive Society shows how anthropologists have tried to define the original form of human society.
The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion
Author: Timothy Insoll
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-10-27
Total Pages: 1135
ISBN-13: 019923244X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA comprehensive overview, by period and region, of the archaeology of ritual and religion. The coverage is global, and extends from the earliest prehistory to modern times. Written by over sixty renowned specialists, the Handbook presents the very best in current scholarship, and will also stimulate further research.
Seeking Viable Grassroots Representation Mechanisms in African Constitutions
Author: Charles Mwalimu
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 742
ISBN-13: 9781433107825
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this book Charles Mwalimu explores viable grassroots representation mechanisms in African constitutions in order to positively integrate indigenous and modern systems in Sub-Saharan Africa. A comparative study method is used to examine the constitutional principles of chieftaincy and local government and their impact on human rights. To establish and prove lack of positive integration Mwalimu connects this failure to poor constitutionalism, development and stultified growth and human rights violations. This book proposes remedial actions to build nondiscriminatory constitutional regimes eradicating violations of human rights.
Order and Rebellion in Tribal Africa
Author: Max Gluckman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 1136528490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese 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 of treason. He advanced to a general theory of ritual, as well as to general propositions about the position of officials representing conflicting interests within a hierarchy, typified by the African chief under colonial rule. Originally published in 1963.
Theories of Illness
Author: George Peter Murdock
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 1980-12-15
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0822976307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn important contribution to medical anthropology, this work defines the principal causes if illness that are reported throughout the world, distinguishing those involving natural causation from the more widely prevalent hypotheses advancing supernatural explanations.
