Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society

Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society

Max Gluckman

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2012
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Antropología social y cultural, etnografía
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9781412846158
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What can we learn from tribal societies about the ways in which, in a variety of social settings, groups of men resolve their conflicts with other men? In order to answer this question, Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society compares nearly forty case study societies, most of them in Africa, in their reconstructed pre-colonial tribal condition

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