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The Early State in African Perspective
Culture, Power and Division of Labor
Series: - Studies in Human Society, Volume: 3
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The essays in this volume are the product of an interdisciplinary research seminar on âThe Early State in Africaâ, conducted during the 1979-1980 academic year at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This seminar was one of a series of seminars on comparative civilizations. The participants included historians, sociologists, political scientists, and specialists in comparative religion, who shared an interest in the emergence and dynamics of the state in Africa and were concerned with trying to understand its origins and its various manifestations on the continent.
Preface, S.N. Eisenstadt, Michel Aitbol and Naomi Chazan
Acknowledgements
The Origins of the State Reconsidered, S.N. Eisenstadt, Michel Abitbol and Naomi Chazan
Myths and Politics in Precolonial Africa, Naomi Chazan and Michel Abitbol
The Early State in Africa: The Asante Case, Naomi Chazan
Islam and State Formation in West Africa, Nehemia Levtzion
Maraboutism and State Formation in Southern Morocco, Michel Abitbol
Christianity and the Early State in Ethiapia, Steven Kaplan
State Formation in Africa, Conclusions, S.N. Eisenstadt, Michel Abitbol and Naomi Chazan
Contributors
Index
Acknowledgements
The Origins of the State Reconsidered, S.N. Eisenstadt, Michel Abitbol and Naomi Chazan
Myths and Politics in Precolonial Africa, Naomi Chazan and Michel Abitbol
The Early State in Africa: The Asante Case, Naomi Chazan
Islam and State Formation in West Africa, Nehemia Levtzion
Maraboutism and State Formation in Southern Morocco, Michel Abitbol
Christianity and the Early State in Ethiapia, Steven Kaplan
State Formation in Africa, Conclusions, S.N. Eisenstadt, Michel Abitbol and Naomi Chazan
Contributors
Index