Questioning the concept of the state in Indigenous Africa

Social Dynamics

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1983, Pages 12-28

  Skalník, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 84926273450     PISSN: 02533952     EISSN: 19407874     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02533958308458343     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Beattie, John 1964 Other Cultures. Aims, Methods and Achievements in Social Anthropology. London: Cohen and West.
2. Claessen, Henri J.M. and Peter Skalník (eds.) 1978 The Early State. The Hague: Mouton.
3. Claessen, Henri J.M. and Peter Skalník 1981 The Study of the State. The Hague: Mouton.
4. Clastres, Pierre 1977 [1974] Society Against the State. New York: Urizen Books.
5. Engels, Frederick 1972 [1884] The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. New York: International Publishers.
6. Fortes, Meyer and Edward E. Evans-Pritchard 1940 “Introduction”, In African Political Systems edited by M. Fortes and E. Evans-Pritchard, pp. 1–23. London: Oxford University Press.
7. Kuper, Hilda 1978 “The monarchy and the military in Swaziland”, in Social System and Tradition in Southern Africa, edited by J. Argyle and E. Preston-Whyte, pp. 222–239. Cape Town: Oxford University Press.
8. Fried, Morton 1967 The Evolution of Political Society. New York: Random House.
9. Lonsdale, John 1981 “States and social processes in Africa: a historiographical survey” The African Studies Review, 24 (2–3): 139–225.
10. Malinowski, Bronislaw 1944 Freedom and Civilization. New York: Roy Publishers.
11. Miller, Joseph 1976 Kings and Kinsmen: Early Mbundu States in Angola. Oxford: The Clarendon Press.
12. Radcliffe-Brown, Archibald R. 1940 Preface, In African Political Systems, edited by M. Fortes and E.E. Evans-Pritchard pp xi-xiii. London: Oxford University Press.
13. Seaton, S. Lee 1978 The early state in Hawaii in The Early State edited by H.J.M. Claessen and P. Skalník pp. 369–288. The Hague: Mouton.
14. Sigrist, Christian 1967 Regulierte Anarchie 2nd edition. Olten: Walter Verlag and Frankfurt Syndikat.
15. Skalník, Peter 1981 “The role of the state in the dismantling of the Ghanaian rural economy” Journal of Legal Pluralism, 19: 177–188.
16. Tait David 1961 The Konkomba of Northern Ghana edited by J. Goody. London: Oxford University Press.