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Title Beyond chiefdoms : pathways to complexity in Africa / edited by Susan Keech McIntosh.

Imprint Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  306.2096 B468    ---  Available
Description x, 176 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Series New directions in archaeology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Pathways to complexity : an African perspective / Susan Keech McIntosh -- Segmentary state and the ritual phase in political economy / Aidan Southall -- Perceiving variability in time and space : the evolutionary mapping of African societies / Ann B. Stahl -- Western representations of urbanism and invisible African towns / Rodrick J. McIntosh -- Modeling political organization in large-scale settlement clusters : a case study from the Inland Niger Delta / Susan Keech McIntosh -- Sacred centers and urbanization in West Central Africa / Raymond N. Asombang -- Permutations in patrimonialism and populism : the Aghem chiefdoms of Western Cameroon / Igor Kopytoff -- Wonderful society : the Burgess Shale creatures, Mandara polities, and the nature of prehistory / Nicholas David, Judy Sterner -- Material culture and the dialectics of identity in the Kalahari : AD 700-1700 / James Denbow -- Seeking and keeping power in Bunyoro-Kitara, Uganda / Peter Robertshaw -- (In)visible roots of Bunyoro-Kitara and the Buganda in the Lakes region : AD 800-1300 / David L. Schoenbrun -- Power of symbols and the symbols of power through time : probing the Luba past / Pierre de Maret -- Pathways of political development in equatorial Africa and neo-evolutionary theory / Jan Vansina.
Subject Political anthropology -- Africa.
Social archaeology -- Africa.
Archaeology and state -- Africa.
Africa -- Politics and government.
Africa -- Antiquities.
Added Author McIntosh, Susan Keech.
ISBN 0521630746 (hardback)

 
    
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