Contributors to the issue

Tymowski, Michał

Michał Tymowski is Titular Professor of History at Warsaw University in Poland. His main fields of interests are medieval history, political anthropology, precolonial African states, and economic history of West Africa. He presented a Doctoral thesis in 1971, and a habilitation in...

van der Vliet, Edward C. L.

Edward C. L. van der Vliet is Senior Researcher at the Department of His-tory, University of Groningen. His main research interests are: state formation and the emergence of the polis in Archaic Greece (800–500 BCE); political culture and the evolution of the political system...

Jianping Yi

Jianping Yi is Professor of Anthropology at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Scholar of Xiaoxiang (a titled professor) at Hunan Normal Univer-sity (China). His current research is focused on the direct connection between the social size and the evolution of forms of political...

Pieter van de Velde

Pieter van de Velde is archaeologist and anthropologist. He became affili-ated with the Early State Society early in his career. He then wrote a few articles and co-edited several books on that topic (Early State Economics, Pivot Politics, etc.), later to turn his attention to other...

Czeglédy, André P.

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

Buchowski, Michał

Michał Buchowski is a Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Poznań and of Comparative Central European Studies at European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder. He was (2003-2004) a Distinguished Visiting Professor for International Affairs at Columbia University and...

Hann, Chris

Chris Hann was born in Wales in 1953 and studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University before switching to Social Anthropology as a graduate student in Cambridge. He was Professor of Social Anthropology at Kent from 1992 to 1997. Between 1997 and 1999 he was a visiting...