caa a22 4500 386312656 CHVBK 20180307111554.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198801 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0010417500015048 doi S0010417500015048 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0010417500015048 Southall Aidan University of Wisconsin, Madison The Segmentary State in Africa and Asia [Elektronische Daten] [Aidan Southall] Segmentary state was the concept coined to fit Alur society into the theory of political anthropology of the 1940s. Fortes and Evans-Pritchard made the first giant step in the comparative analysis of African political systems, but supposedly centralized states and stateless segmentary lineage systems were the only ones to receive full consideration. Nadel had already distilled the voluminous Eurocentric literature on the theory and philosophy of the state, overburdened as it was with Hegelian growth, to produce a precise empirically oriented and workable definition of the state for anthropologists. Alur society did not fit or even approximate anywhere within the range of the model provided. But the model formulated in 1956 under Alur inspiration was an awkward and cumbersome derivation of Nadel's rather than a clear model in its own right. It would be simpler and better to define the segmentary state as one in which the spheres of ritual suzerainty and political sovereignty do not coincide. The former extends widely towards a flexible, changing periphery. The latter is confined to the central, core domain. Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1988 Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/1(1988-01), 52-82 0010-4175 30:1<52 1988 30 CSS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500015048 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500015048 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Southall Aidan University of Wisconsin, Madison NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/1(1988-01), 52-82 0010-4175 30:1<52 1988 30 CSS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge