Order and Rebellion in Tribal AfricaThese essays are mainly concerned with the development of some of Max Gluckman's ideas about African politics. He regarded frequent rebellions to replace incumbents of political offices (as against revolutions to alter the structure of offices) as inherent in these politics. Later he connected this situation with modes of husbandry, problems of the devolution of power, types of weapons and the law of treason. He advanced to a general theory of ritual, as well as to general propositions about the position of officials representing conflicting interests within a hierarchy, typified by the African chief under colonial rule. |
Contents
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I An Advance In African Sociology | 50 |
II Succession and Civil War Among the Bemba an Exercise in Anthropological Theory | 84 |
III Rituals of Rebellion in SouthEast Africa | 110 |
IV The Magic of Despair | 137 |
V The Village Headman in British | 146 |
VI Chief and Native Commissioner in Modern Zululand | 171 |
VII The Reasonable Man in Barotse Law | 178 |
VIII Malinowskis Functional Analysis of Social Change | 207 |
IX Malinowskis Contribution to Social Anthropology | 235 |
X MalinowskiFieldworker and Theorist | 244 |
Notes | 253 |
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