How societies are born : governance in West Central Africa before 1600 / / Jan Vansina
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| Autore: |
Vansina Jan
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| Titolo: |
How societies are born : governance in West Central Africa before 1600 / / Jan Vansina
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| Pubblicazione: | Charlottesville, : University of Virginia Press, 2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 967/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Tribal government - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
| Tribal government - Africa, Central | |
| Political anthropology - Africa, Sub-Saharan | |
| Political anthropology - Africa, Central | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Africa, Sub-Saharan Politics and government |
| Africa, Central Politics and government | |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-309) and index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Interestingly, these proceeded well beyond environmental constraints and were characterized by "major differences in the subjects which enthralled people," whether these were cattle, initiations and social position, or "the splendors of sacralized leaders and the possibilities of participating in them.". |
| Titolo autorizzato: | How societies are born |
| ISBN: | 1-283-80615-0 |
| 0-8139-3418-4 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822009803321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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