Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Pathways to complexity: an African perspective
- 2 The segmentary state and the ritual phase in political economy
- 3 Perceiving variability in time and space: the evolutionary mapping of African societies
- 4 Western representations of urbanism and invisible African towns
- 5 Modeling political organization in large-scale settlement clusters: a case study from the Inland Niger Delta
- 6 Sacred centers and urbanization in West Central Africa
- 7 Permutations in patrimonialism and populism: The Aghem chiefdoms of Western Cameroon
- 8 Wonderful society: the Burgess Shale creatures, Mandara polities, and the nature of prehistory
- 9 Material culture and the dialectics of identity in the Kalahari: AD 700–1700
- 10 Seeking and keeping power in Bunyoro-Kitara, Uganda
- 11 The (in)visible roots of Bunyoro-Kitara and Buganda in the Lakes region: AD 800–1300
- 12 The power of symbols and the symbols of power through time: probing the Luba past
- 13 Pathways of political development in equatorial Africa and neo-evolutionary theory
- Index
Index
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Pathways to complexity: an African perspective
- 2 The segmentary state and the ritual phase in political economy
- 3 Perceiving variability in time and space: the evolutionary mapping of African societies
- 4 Western representations of urbanism and invisible African towns
- 5 Modeling political organization in large-scale settlement clusters: a case study from the Inland Niger Delta
- 6 Sacred centers and urbanization in West Central Africa
- 7 Permutations in patrimonialism and populism: The Aghem chiefdoms of Western Cameroon
- 8 Wonderful society: the Burgess Shale creatures, Mandara polities, and the nature of prehistory
- 9 Material culture and the dialectics of identity in the Kalahari: AD 700–1700
- 10 Seeking and keeping power in Bunyoro-Kitara, Uganda
- 11 The (in)visible roots of Bunyoro-Kitara and Buganda in the Lakes region: AD 800–1300
- 12 The power of symbols and the symbols of power through time: probing the Luba past
- 13 Pathways of political development in equatorial Africa and neo-evolutionary theory
- Index
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- Beyond ChiefdomsPathways to Complexity in Africa, pp. 173 - 176Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1999