History and Social Anthropology

ISBN-13: 9780415330336 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 344 str.

I. M. Lewis

Opis

Examining the ways in which social anthropologists might gain from and contribute to, historical studies this volume contains papers on historical studies by anthropologists on 19th century Nupe, Yoruba and Benin and 17th century Cameroons in West Africa; on the succession in kingship in Buganda; and on the development of national politics in Albania.
First published in 1968.

Recenzje

'Evidently historians and social anthropologists have something to learn from each other.' - Times Literary Supplement

Spis treści

1. I.M. Lewis Introduction 2. Peter Morton Williams The Fulani Penetration into Nupe and Yoruba in the Nineteenth Century 3. P.C. Lloyd Conflict Theory and Yoruba Kingdoms 4. Structural Differentiation in Rome (200-31 B.C.): The Genesis of an Historical Bureaucratic Society 5. Edwin Ardener Documentary and Linguistic Evidence for the Rise of the Trading Polities between Rio del Rey and Cameroons 6. Martin Southwold The History of a History: Royal Succession in Buganda 7. E.R. Cregeen The Changing Role of the House of Argyll in the Scottish Highlands 8. R.E. Bradbury Continuities and Discontinuities in Pre-colonial and Colonial Benin Politics (1897-1951) 9. Ian Whitaker Tribal Structure and National Politics in Albania, 1910-1950

O autorze

I.M. Lewis