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Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa (Paperback)
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Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa (Paperback)
Series: African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
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Originally published in 1971 this book argues that certain aspects
of traditional African social systems have been misunderstood
because of a failure to appreciate what is implied by important
differences between the technologies of the major traditional
African states and those of Europe and Asia. Differences in the
modes of agricultural production were connected with differences in
other aspects of the social system such as the relations between
subjects and chiefs. This means that comparisons with the feudal
systems of Western Europe or the monarchies of Asiatic states have
definite limitations. Differences in technology not only affected
not only the means of production but also of destruction. The
importance of differential access to the means of domination is
stressed as a critical factor in African political systems. This is
an aspect which has been obscured in many studies that have relied
largely on material gathered after the establishment of colonial
rule.
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