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Foreword
Adam Kuper
Chapter 1. The Right Book at the Right Time: Early Reactions and Continuing Debates
Aleksandar Bošković
Chapter 2. African Political Systems and Political Anthropology
Herbert S. Lewis
Chapter 3. Complementary Segmentary Opposition, Early Kingship and the Looming State: Bridging the Dichotomy of African Political Systems
Simon Simonse
Chapter 4. The Shilluk reth: Early King or Head of State? An Inter-Nilotic Exploration
Simon Simonse
Chapter 5. From African Political Systems and Tribes Without Rulers via The Early State towards a New Approach to the Political Anthropology of Africa
Petr Skalník
Chapter 6. Retaliation, Mediation and Punishment in Ankole: Revisiting the Chapter by Oberg
Günther Schlee
Chapter 7. Beyond African Political Systems? The Relevance of Patrilineal Descent in Moments of Crisis in Northern Somalia
Markus V. Hoehne
Chapter 8. Some Notes on the Tuareg (Kinin) of Northern Darfur
Munzoul Assal
Chapter 9. The Nkandla Controversy: Insights from African Political Systems
Robin Palmer
Chapter 10. Rethinking Tswana Kingships and Their Incorporation in Modern Botswana State Formation
Ørnulf Gulbrandsen
Afterword
Bilinda Straight
Index
African Political Systems Revisited
Changing Perspectives on Statehood and Power
Edited by Aleksandar Bošković and Günther Schlee
Foreword by Adam Kuper
Afterword by Bilinda Straight
278 pages, 10 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-472-2 Hb Published (April 2022)
eISBN 978-1-80073-473-9 eBook