State Formation and Political Legitimacy

Herausgeber: Cohen, Ronald; Toland, Judith D.

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The evolution of the state from earlier forms of political organization is associated with revolutionary changes in the structure of inequality

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 1988
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 468g
• ISBN-13: 9780887381614
• ISBN-10: 0887381618
• Artikelnr.: 26182431

Autorenporträt

Ronald Cohen is professor of anthropology at the University of Florida, Gainesville. He has held positions at the University of Toronto, McGill University, Northwestern University, and Ahmadu Bello (Nigeria). Judith D. Toland is a practicing anthropologist, director of her own management consulting firm, JDT & Associates, Chicago, and part-time lecturer in anthropology at Northwestern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Changing Legitimacy 2. Sabati-Ba's Coup d'Etat: Contexts of
Legitimacy in a West African Chiefdom 3. Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and
State Formation 4. Public and Personal Ideology in an Early State 5.
Context and Authority in Early Mesopotamian Law 6. Inca Legitimation as a
Communication Process 7. Sovereignty, Legitimacy, and Power: Prologomena to
the Study of the Colonial State 8. Legitimation as a Process: The Expansion
of Government and Party in Tanzania 9. The Legitimation of the Modem State:
A Historical and Structural Account