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JARIGH G. OOSTEN
EJ. BRILL
LEIDEN NEW YORK KOLN
1996
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Henri J.M. Claessen and Jarich G. Oosten
Introduction 1
Henri J.M. Claessen and Jarich G. Oosten
West Africa
Ideological problems and the problem of ideology: 24
reflections on integration and strain in pre-colonial
West Africa
Patricia A. Shifferd
Europe
Ideology and the development of European kingdoms 220
Jarich Oosten
Mesoamerica
Class and state in Aztec official ideology 256
Frederic Hicks
Polynesia
Embodied Ideas. An essay on ritual and politics in 298
pre-capitalist society
Thomas Bargatzky
Contributors 406
Index 411