These essays are mainly concerned with the development of some of Max Gluckman's ideas about African politics. He r
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English Pages xii + 273 [281] Year 1963
Table of contents :
Introduction..............1
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