Author: Mair, Lucy.
Title: African Kingdoms.
Description: Oxford University Press 1977. Blue cloth boards. 151pp 8vo. 0.4kg. Ex university library, showing one stamp only on ffep with later ownership signature. o/w VG+ in VG dustwrapper (clipped, fading to spine, no chips, tears, or loss). still a clean and attractive copy. ISBN: 9780198216988 Bringing together ethnographical and historical evidence the author provides an account of how power was acquired and consolidated in the creation and organisation of the principal African kingdoms. Discusses the ritual surrounding kingship and also the territorial and functional organisations that followed the establishment of kingdoms.

Keywords: anthropology history south southern africa african


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