Pathways to complexity: an African perspective / Susan Keech McIntosh -- The segmentary state and the ritual phase in political economy / Aidan Southall -- Perceiving variability in time and space: the evolutionary mapping of African societies / Ann B. Stahl -- Western representations of urbanism and invisible African towns / Rodrick J. McIntosh -- Modeling political organization in large-scale settlement clusters: a case study from the Inland Niger Delta / Susan Keech McIntosh -- Sacred centers and urbanization in West Central Africa / Raymond N. Asombang -- Permutations in patrimonialism and populism: the Aghem chiefdoms of Western Cameroon / Igor Kopytoff -- Wonderful society: the Burgess Shale creatures, Mandara polities, and the nature of prehistory / Nicholas David, Judy Sterner -- Material culture and the dialectics of identity in the Kalahari: AD 700-1700 / James Denbow -- Seeking and keeping power in Bunyoro-Kitara, Uganda / Peter Robertshaw --The (in)visible roots of Bunyoro-Kitara and the Buganda in the Lakes region: AD 800-1300 / David L. Schoenbrun -- The power of symbols and the symbols of power through time: probing the Luba past / Pierre de Maret -- Pathways of political development in equatorial Africa and neo-evolutionary theory / Jan Vansina.
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