Explores the ethnic separatisms and 'neo-nationalisms' that threatened to undermine the fragile stability of the world order in the early 1980s.

This 1979 text addresses the strong criticism of dominant theories in large areas of Western social science.

This 1979 volume provides a general and theoretical analysis of succession in different traditional African societies.

This 1958 book demonstrates how the changing structure of the domestic group may be seen to explain otherwise obscure elements of the particular society.