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Tribes Without Rulers: Studies in African Segmentary Systems

John Middleton; David Tait · Routledge & Kegan Paul · 1958

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Author
John Middleton; David Tait
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2026-09-01
Reliability notes
Edited volume. Reissued by Routledge in 2013 (doi:10.4324/9781315017358).

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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.