{"product_id":"conflict-age-and-power-in-north-east-africa-9780852552513","title":"Conflict Age and Power in North East Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAge-systems as political instruments.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe volume contributes to our understanding of the formal genius of age systems ... - -- John G. Galaty * in JRAI *\u003cbr\u003e...East Africa is the single most important area of the world in which age-systems survive, ...This welcome volume is a substantial contribution to our knowledge of age-systems. - -- P.T.W. Baxter * SOAS BULLETIN *\u003cbr\u003eIf previously anthropologists had focused on a particular society and had suggested that age-systems were autonomous structures of control and sociability this volume considers age-systems as political means for competitions, violence and trans-national association transcending the isolation of social ritual, though using ritual as a political model of competition. ...an interesting and highly significant volume, particularly within the ongoing discussions of ethnicity, identity and globalisation. It provides a new theoretical framework for East African ethnography and a challenge for anthropologists of politics, religion and nationalism. - -- Mario I. Aguilar * CAMBRIDGE ANTHROPOLOGY *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConflict, age and power in North East African age systems, Simon Simonse and Eisei Kurimoto; resonance of age systems in southeastern Sudan, Eisei Kurimoto; age, conflict and power in the monyomiji age systems, Simon Simonse; \"brothers in arms\" - military aspects of East African age-class systems in historical perspective, John Lamphear; generational systems on the threshold of the third millennium - an anthropological perspective, Serge Tornay; Gaga systems on the meta-ethical level - Gabbra\/Boran\/Garre interactions in the Kenyan-Ethiopian borderland, Gunther Schlee; women's age categories in a male-dominated society - the case of the Chamus of Kenya, Kaori Kawai; age systems and modes of predatory expansion, Paul Spencer; peacemakers, prophets, chiefs and warriors - age-set antagonism as a factor of political change among the Kipsigis of Kenya, Toru Komma; Rendille age system as an instrument of clan coherence and subsistence security, Shun Sato; two extinct age systems among the Iteso, Nobuhiro Nagashima.","brand":"James Currey","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406257824087,"sku":"9780852552513","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780852552513.jpg?v=1730495132","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/conflict-age-and-power-in-north-east-africa-9780852552513","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}