African Political Systems

M. Fortes, E. E. Evans-Pritchard

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN:
  9781138926080
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317406242
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Anthropology
• Index: Social Sciences

First published in 1940 and this edition in 1987, this book is a comparative study of African political institutions. It describes different types of social organisation that are found in a number of African societies and analyses the principles underlying these traditional forms of government.

The volume represents the results of field studies carried out by trained investigators in a number of areas, and was compiled and edited under the auspices of the International African Institute. It will be of interest to students, anthropologists and administrators.

INDEX

Abachwezi, 123 ff., 136, 156, 160.

Abahinda dynasty, 124–5, 159.

abakungu, 139–40, 146.

abatoro, 131–2, 149–50, 151–2.

abatware, 139–40.

Accession war, 140, 143, 156, 158 ff.

Administration, Bemba, 107–10.

British, and Banyankole, 162.

and Ngwato, 56, 78.

and Nuer, 281.

and Tallensi, 264–6.

and Zulu, 26–7, 36, 46 ff.

European, 15–16, 65 ff.

Ngwato, 78, 80–2.

Tallensi, 240–1.

Age-classes (or age-grades), 188, 209, 210, 213, 214, 234.

Age-sets, Nuer, 288 ff.

Agriculturalists and Agriculturalism, 8, 94–5, 121–62, 199, 248, 249.

Ancestor spirits. See Spirits, ancestral.

Ankole, 121–62.

Army, Ngwato, 70, 73.

Zulu, 26.

See also Regiments.

Bagyendanwa, 150 ff., 158, 159.

Bahima and Bairu (or Muhima and Mwiru), 121 ff.

bakabilo (hereditary state councillors), 99, 100, 108–9, 110, 111, 112, 119–20.

Bakiga 130

Bantu, 52, 83–5, 94, 95, 101, 108, 110, 121.

Kavirondo, 197–236.

See also Bemba.

Banyankole, 5, 8, 9, 121–62.

Barotse, ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright page
• Original Title Page
• Original Copyright page
• Dedication
• Editors' Note
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• The Kingdom of the Zulu of South Africa'
• The Political Organization of the Ngwato of Bechuanaland Protectorate1
• The Political System of the Bemba Tribe—North-Eastern Rhodesia
• The Kingdom of Ankole in Uganda
• The Kede: A Riverain State in Northern Nigeria
• The Political Organization of the Bantu of Kavirondo
• The Political System of the Tallensi of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast
• The Nuer of the Southern Sudan
• Supplementary Studies by Contributors to this Book
• Index