Gluckman, Max ; M Fortes; E E Evans-Pritchard — Systemes Politiques Africains

Paris, France, Presses Universitaires de France, 1964. Softcover. Tan wraps with brown text and duochrome illustration on cover. 266 pp. Chiefly text. Text in French. "The comparative study of political institutions with a special reference to simple societies is an important branch of social anthropology that has not yet received the attention it deserves. The publication of this volume offers the opportunity to present a brief presentation of the nature of this study as conceived by the publishers and by myself. The task of social anthropology, as a natural science of human society, is the systematic search for the nature of social institutions. The method of the natural sciences is always based on the comparison of observed phenomena and the purpose of such a comparison is, through a careful examination of the diversities, to discover the underlying uniformities. Good (some sunning and foxing to wraps, penning on endpages, pages frayed at edges, page content excellent condition) .