SOSC 2480 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Religion In Africa, Stateless Society, Kinship
2 Nov 2016
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Week 5 - lecture - african polities and religions. Wealth, in any society, brings about some sort of power/authority - who in a society who goes about making decisions. Political and religious culture in early african history. The challenge of recreating ancient african societies is often considerable. Information from the past comes down through oral tradition. Many african peoples formed what are often referred to as stateless societies or agnatic societies - not without authority or decision, but without large institutions (exceptions in. Egypt - large state society, layers of authority and hierarchy - kingship and divine right from. Not having a state does not mean that these societies were chaotic or anarchic - were actually orderly and organized - people knew their role - decisions made when chaos breaks out. A man or a woman who is supposed to be at the origin of a descent group.
