Custom and Conflict in Africa

For example, Elman R. Service, in his book Primitive Social Organization: An Evolutionary Perspective (1962), discusses in detail the band, tribal, and chiefdom stages, and then the primitive state and ancient empire. Although from a different perspective, Max Gluckman also wrote Custom and Conflict in Africa (1955), which dynamically describes a situation in which peace is maintained through the existence of tension and conflict, also set in African tribes, and Georges Balandier discussed political organizations in crisis in Political Anthropology (1971). It is expected that serious political anthropological research will emerge not only in Africa but also in the Middle East, Latin America, Southeast Asia, and South Asia in the future.

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…たとえばサービスElman R.Serviceはその《未開の社会組織――進化論的展望Primitive Social Organization：An Evolutionary Perspective》(1962)でバンド段階，部族段階，首長制段階について詳しく論じ，さらに原始国家，古代帝国が続くと位置づけている。立場は異なるがグラックマンMax Gluckmanはやはりアフリカの諸部族を舞台として，緊張･対立の存在によって逆に平和が維持されている状況をダイナミックに説く《アフリカの慣習と葛藤Custom and Conflict in Africa》(1955)を書き，バランディエGeorges Balandierは《政治人類学》(1971)で危機状況の政治組織を論じた。アフリカのみならず中東，中南米，東南アジアあるいは南アジア諸国についても今後本格的な政治人類学的研究の出現が期待される。…

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