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This book reintroduces an African perspective on archaeological theorizing about complex societies.
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Criticising the popular view about the progressive development of powerful hierarchies led by chiefs and kings, this book offers evidence from case studies in sub-Saharan Africa supporting the idea that complexity has emerged and developed in a variety of ways. It includes contributions from historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists.
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1. Pathways to complexity: an African perspective Susan Keech McIntosh; 2. The segmentary state and the ritual phase in political economy Aidan Southall; 3. Perceiving variability in time and space: the evolutionary mapping of African societies Ann B. Stahl; 4. Western representations of urbanism and invisible African towns Roderick J. McIntosh; 5. Modelling political organization in large scale settlement clusters: a case study from the inland Niger Delta Susan Keech McIntosh; 6. Sacred centres and urbanisation in West Central Africa Raymond N. Asombang; 7. Permutations in patrimonialism and populism: the Aghem chiefdoms of Western Cameroon Igor Kopytoff; 8. Wonderful society: the Burgess shale creatures, Mandara polities, and the nature of prehistory Nicholas David and Judy Sterner; 9. Material culture and the dialectics of identity in the Kalahari: AD 700–1700 James Denbow; 10. Seeking and keeping power in Bunyora-Kitara, Uganda Peter Robertshaw; 11. The (in)visible roots of Bunyoro-Kitara and Buganda in the Lakes Region: 800–1300 David L. Schoenbrun; 12. The power of symbols and the symbols of power through time: probing the Luba past Pierre de Maret; 13. Pathways of political development in Equatorial Africa and neo-evolutionary theory Jan Vansina.
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Beyond Chiefdoms : Pathways to Complexity in Africa
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Cambridge University Press, 1999
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Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa (New Directions in Archaeology)
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Beyond Chiefdoms: Pathways to Complexity in Africa (New Directions in Archaeology)
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Hardcover. No dust jacket, as issued. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Light foxing to edge. Clean, unmarked pages. "This important book deserves a wide readership, for it demonstrates how much the rich archaeological and historical record of Africa has to offer. Strange that so many prominent archaeological theoreticians have ignored the African past! They can no longer afford to do so." International Journal of African Historical Studies. Codice articolo 2204200100
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