Capital Punishment in Egalitarian Society: The Meta' Case

Autor:	Richard G. Dillon
Rok vydání:	1980
Předmět:	Politics Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Social system Anthropology Sanctions Sociology Capital punishment Social science Positive economics Isolated cases West africa
Zdroj:	Journal of Anthropological Research. 36:437-452
ISSN:	2153-3806 0091-7710
DOI:	10.1086/jar.36.4.3629613
Popis:	Executions in egalitarian societies represent an important yet neglected topic in the anthropology of law. Although isolated cases have long been on record, theorists of legal and political evolution have not incorporated this evidence adequately into their models. This is in part due to the lack of detailed analyses of the operation of these legal procedures within specific social systems. The present paper seeks to fill this gap by analyzing the utilization of ultimate coercive sanctions in precolonial Meta' society of the Cameroon highlands of West Africa.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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