Leopards and Leaders

Leopards and Leaders PDF Author: Malcolm Ruel
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415330022
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 382

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Book Description
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.