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Meyer Fortes (1906–1983)

Author of African Political Systems

12+ Works 111 Members 1 Review

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Works by Meyer Fortes

African Political Systems (1940) 61 copies

Kinship and the social order; the legacy of Lewis Henry Morgan (1970) 15 copies

Oedipus and Job in West African Religion (1959) 9 copies

Time and social structure and other essays (1970) 4 copies

Religion, Morality and the Person: Essays on Tallensi Religion (Essays in Social Anthropology) (1987) 4 copies

The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi (1969) 4 copies

Marriage in Tribal Societies (Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology) (1972) 4 copies

Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi (1980) 3 copies

African Systems of Thought (International African Institute) (1965) 2 copies

Studies in African Social Anthropology (1975) 2 copies

SOCIAL STRUCTURE: STUDIES PRESENTED TO A. R. RADCLIFFE-BROWN 2 copies

Rules and the Emergence of Society (1983) 1 copy

Associated Works

Anthropology of Folk Religion (1960) — Contributor — 51 copies

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Africa (14) amity (1) anthropology (12) Ashanti (1) class structure (1) culture (2) ethnography (2) ethnology (1) family (1) family structure (1) Gerald L. Pocius Folklore Collection (1) GN (2) jural dimension (1) kinship (2) kinship polity (1) kinship relations (1) kinship systems (1) L13 (2) law (2) Lewis Henry Morgan (1) Marx (1) Marxism (1) norms (1) Nuer (2) political anthropology (4) political jural (1) political science (3) political systems (2) politics (5) Radcliffe-Brown (1) religion (2) social anthropology (2) social order (2) social structure (1) sociology of religion (1) structural analysis (2) structuralism (1) theory (3) West Africa (1) Zulu (2)

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Birthdate: 1906-04-25
Date of death: 1983-01-27
Gender: male

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African Political Systems by M Evans-Pritchard Fortes, E E

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E. E. Evans-Pritchard

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Works: 12
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Members: 111
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Rating: ½ 4.4

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ISBNs: 48
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