ISBN:
9783658378493
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (247 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Keywords:
Africa-Civilization
;
Ghana-Social conditions
Abstract:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- A Professor in Ghana: Norbert Elias, civilising processes and the African challenge. An introduction by the editors -- Elias's Intellectual Route to Africa -- A Note on the Texts -- Elias and the Krobo -- The Impact of Elias's African Experiences on his Later Thinking -- Do African Processes of Civilisation Exist? -- Conclusion -- Problems of Researching Traditional Societies -- Overcoming 'Tribe' and Other Static Categories -- I Remarks About Research in Ghana -- II 'Tribe' as a False Category: Categories in Anthropology -- III Shifting Power Balances and the Decline of Race as an Argument for Differences -- IV Pseudo-metaphysical Explanations, the 'Otherness' and Short-lived Political Evaluations -- African Village-States: The Formation of Survival Units -- I Introduction -- II Tribe as a Category -- III Development of Categories as a Process -- The Krobo People. Socio- and Psychogeneses of a Stateless Society -- Outline of an Early State-Formation Process -- I Hilltop Settlements as the First Stations to Statehood -- II Sociology and History in Studying 'Prehistoric' African Societies -- III Notes on Noa Azu and his Adangbe History -- A Tribe on the Move: The Development of Krobo Society -- I The Journey Begins -- II Interstation -- III Group Identity and Settlement -- IV Rivalry and Alliance Between Manya and Djebian -- V The Krobos as Survival Unit and Evaluating Historical Records -- Fission and Fusion: The Next Stage of Tribe Formation -- I The Fission and Fusion of Groups -- II Violence Control and the Survival Function of Early States -- III Integration Under the Rule of Priests -- IV Priests and Warriors as Competitors for Ruling Functions -- Religion in a Village Society -- I A State in a Nascent Form: The Central Council of Okumo Priests.
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