Lineage and locality as antithetical principles in east african systems of land tenure
Lineage and locality as antithetical principles in east african systems of land tenure
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东非土地保有制度中血统和地方作为对立原则
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1984
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P. Shipton
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P. Shipton
For more than a century anthropologists and other social scientists have drawn a broad distinction between agrarian societies in which political units are constitut? ed on the basis of kinship or descent, and those in which they are constituted on the basis of residence in a particular locality. Maine's (1861:172) distinction between "status" and "contract" as principles of social organization can be interpreted to mean much the same thing; so, too, can Morgan's (1877: 6ff., 61) distinction between societas and civitas. The exact idea could be attributed even earlier to Karl Marx, who, in his capacity as classical historian, remarked in 18578 that "the tribes of the ancient states were constituted in one of two ways, either by kinship or by locality" (1964:76-7). Similar divisions appear sometimes in typologies of non-western systems of agrarian land tenure. In a general survey of land rights in the rurul areas of the British colonies in the 1940s, Meek (1945:26) wrote: