How societies are born : governance in West Central Africa before 1600 / Jan Vansina.
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TextSeries: ACLS Humanities E-BookPublication details: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 325 pages) : mapsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780813934181
- 0813934184
- Tribal government -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Tribal government -- Africa, Central
- Political anthropology -- Africa, Sub-Saharan
- Political anthropology -- Africa, Central
- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government
- Africa, Central -- Politics and government
- Gouvernement tribal -- Afrique subsaharienne
- Anthropologie politique -- Afrique subsaharienne
- Afrique subsaharienne -- Politique et gouvernement
- Afrique centrale -- Politique et gouvernement
- Central Africa
- ethnogenesis
- society
- political systems
- history
- 0-999
- 1000-1999
- HISTORY -- Africa -- Central
- HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa
- Political anthropology
- Politics and government
- Tribal government
- Central Africa
- Sub-Saharan Africa
- Gesellschaftsordnung
- Stammesgesellschaft
- Zentralafrika -- West
- Soziales System
- Administration (government)
- Tribal groups
- West Africa
- 967/.01 22
- DT352.65 .V355 2004eb
- 73.70
- NK 4300
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-309) and index.
1. Preludes -- Late-stone age foragers -- Of pots, fields, and flocks -- Proto-Njila speakers and their society -- The dissemination of the Njila languages and its consequences -- Metallurgy -- Toward the formation of West Central Africa -- 2. Early village societies, 700-1000 -- Divuyu -- Agriculture -- Bovine cattle -- Overarching institutions : corporate matrilineages and dispersed matriclans -- Becoming food producers -- 3. Of water, cattle, and kings -- Nqoma -- Cattle nomads and their societies -- Agropastoralists -- Networks -- History, environment, and collective imagination -- 4. Of courts and titleholders -- Feti : an Angolan Zimbabwe? -- Principalities on the planalto -- An inner African frontier.
Like stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: how did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years?
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