Polity Atlas
Book

African Political Systems

Meyer Fortes; E. E. Evans-Pritchard · Oxford University Press for the International African Institute · 1940

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Meyer Fortes; E. E. Evans-Pritchard
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2026-09-01
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Edited volume.

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EstablishedFortes and Evans-Pritchard distinguished African societies with centralised authority, administrative machinery and judicial institutions from societies lacking them, in which order rested on a balance between lineage segments.