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100 1 $aVansina, Jan.
245 10 $aHow societies are born :$bgovernance in West Central Africa before 1600 /$cJan Vansina.
260 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity of Virginia Press,$c2004.
300 $axiv, 325 pages :$bmaps ;$c25 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 285-309) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tPreludes --$tLate-stone age foragers --$tOf pots, fields, and flocks --$tProto-Njila speakers and their society --$tThe dissemination of the Njila languages and its consequences --$tMetallurgy --$tToward the formation of West Central Africa --$g2.$tEarly village societies, 700-1000 --$tDivuyu --$tAgriculture --$tBovine cattle --$tOverarching institutions : corporate matrilineages and dispersed matriclans --$tBecoming food producers --$g3.$tOf water, cattle, and kings --$tNqoma --$tCattle nomads and their societies --$tAgropastoralists --$tNetworks --$tHistory, environment, and collective imagination --$g4.$tOf courts and titleholders --$tFeti : an Angolan Zimbabwe? --$tPrincipalities on the planalto --$tAn inner African frontier.
520 8 $aLike stars, societies are born, and this story deals with such a birth. It asks a fundamental and compelling question: how did societies first coalesce from the small foraging communities that had roamed in West Central Africa for many thousands of years?
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650 0 $aTribal government$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
650 0 $aTribal government$zAfrica, Central.
650 0 $aPolitical anthropology$zAfrica, Sub-Saharan.
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655 7 $aHistory (form)$2gtt$0(NL-LeOCL)088143147
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