Susan Keech McIntosh (ed.)Beyond Chiefdoms
Pathways to Complexity in Africa
Herausgeber: Ashmore, Wendy; Mcintosh, Susan Keech; Audouze, Francoise
1. Pathways to complexity: an African perspective Susan Keech McIntosh; 2.
The segmentary state and the ritual phase in political economy Aidan
Southall; 3. Perceiving variability in time and space: the evolutionary
mapping of African societies Ann B. Stahl; 4. Western representations of
urbanism and invisible African towns Roderick J. McIntosh; 5. Modelling
political organization in large scale settlement clusters: a case study
from the inland Niger Delta Susan Keech McIntosh; 6. Sacred centres and
urbanisation in West Central Africa Raymond N. Asombang; 7. Permutations in
patrimonialism and populism: the Aghem chiefdoms of Western Cameroon Igor
Kopytoff; 8. Wonderful society: the Burgess shale creatures, Mandara
polities, and the nature of prehistory Nicholas David and Judy Sterner; 9.
Material culture and the dialectics of identity in the Kalahari: AD
700-1700 James Denbow; 10. Seeking and keeping power in Bunyora-Kitara,
Uganda Peter Robertshaw; 11. The (in)visible roots of Bunyoro-Kitara and
Buganda in the Lakes Region: 800-1300 David L. Schoenbrun; 12. The power of
symbols and the symbols of power through time: probing the Luba past Pierre
de Maret; 13. Pathways of political development in Equatorial Africa and
neo-evolutionary theory Jan Vansina.
