Leopards and Leaders: Constitutional Politics among a Cross River People (Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology and Ethnography) - Hardcover

Ruel, Malcolm

 
9780415330022: Leopards and Leaders: Constitutional Politics among a Cross River People (Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology and Ethnography)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0415330025 ISBN 13: 9780415330022
Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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Malcolm Ruel,

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415330025
ISBN 13 
9780415330022
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
380

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