RL E: Anthropology and Ethnography: Leopards and Leaders: Constitutional Politics among a Cross River People (Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology and Ethnography)
Book Details
Author(s)Malcolm Ruel
PublisherRoutledge
ISBN / ASIN0415330025
ISBN-139780415330022
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CategorySocial Science
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
This study of politics and government among a West African people, the Banyang of the Upper Cross River, covers the end of the period of Colonial administration. The book:
· Shows the inter-relationship between the structure of the small forest communities and the highly autonomous processes by which they were governed
· Analyses the relationship between residence and common descent as principles of corporate grouping
· Includes a case study of the political struggle involved in one community's claims to independence.
Originally published in 1969.
· Shows the inter-relationship between the structure of the small forest communities and the highly autonomous processes by which they were governed
· Analyses the relationship between residence and common descent as principles of corporate grouping
· Includes a case study of the political struggle involved in one community's claims to independence.
Originally published in 1969.
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