Derived from material presented at a conference sponsored by the Association of Social Anthropologists.

Includes bibliographies.

Introduction, by M. Gluckman and F. Eggan.--Decisions by consensus in councils and committees, with special reference to village and local government in India, by F.G. Bailey.--Factions, a comparative analysis, by R.W. Nichols.--The political structure of African kingdoms, an exploratory method, by P.C. Lloyd.--A critique of the typology of states and political systems, by A. Southall.

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