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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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INDEX
Accessory groups, 110f, 13f; Lugbara, 210ff, 216, 221 ; Tiv, 42ff
Age sets and classes, 3, 6, 148, 228f; Dinka, 103, 114f, 118, 131ff ; Mandari, 94f; Tiv, 35, 51ff, 56f, 59
Agnation, Dinka, 105f, 114, 117ff, 125, 128 ; Konkomba, 169, 195f; Lugbara, 208, 216 1 Mandari, 75ff; Tiv, 38, 52ff
Agriculture, 12, 25 ; Amba, 138 ; Dinka, 98f; Konkomba, 169, 180f; Mandari, 67, 69
Alur, 15, 17n
Amba, 1, 9f, 13, 18, 201, 28, 136–166; ‘King of, 18, 158
Ancestors, 5, 9, 22, 26f; Amba, 141f, 153f; Dinka, 105, 111, 121f; Konkomba, 168f, 195 ; Lugbara, 205, 211, 218f; Mandari, 75f; Tiv, 35f; see also Cult
Ankole, 19n
Anuak, 68n, 93
Arabs, 98, 108, 203
Ashanti, 4
Authority, political, If, 5, 8, 15, 19, 22, 25ff, 28 ; specialization of, 2, 6, 11ff, 16ff, 28f; Amba, 142, 159f; Dinka, 14, 103f, 111, 114f, 118, 120ff, 130ff; Lugbara, 205, 209f, 225f, 228f; Mandari, 71, 79ff; Tiv, 55
Azande, 203
Bari, 67, 92
Basare, 17, 201
Blood, shedding of, 25, 61
Burial obligations, 168, 172
Bushmen, 1
Cattle, 82, 112, 117, 138, 167, 190, 204, 206f; camps, Dinka, 100, 109f, 114ff, 118, 122, 128, 132f; Mandari, 8gf
Central African political sy...
Table of 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