Response to Tobolka’s Article on Chiefdom

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Chabal, Patrick, Feinman, Gary, and Skalník, Petr. 2004. Beyond States and Empires: Chiefdoms and Informal Politics. Social Evolution and History 3(1): 22–40.

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Grinin, Leonid E., and Korotayev, Andrey V. 2023. Chiefdoms: Beyond Time. In Evolution in Nature, Society, and Cognition, edited by Leonid E. Grinin and Andrey V. Korotayev. Volgograd: Uchitel Publishing House, 66–74.

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Skalník, Petr. 1989. Outwitting Ghana: Pluralism of Political Culture in Nanuŋ. In Outwitting the State, edited by Petr Skalník. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers: 145–168.

Skalník, Petr. 2002. The State and Local Ethnopolitical Identities: The Case of Community Conflicts in Northern Ghana. Nouveaux Mondes 10: 141–166.

Skalník, Petr. 2003. Nanumba versus Konkomba: An Assessment of a Troubled Existence. In The Dynamics of Power and the Rule of Law. Essays on Africa and Beyond. In Honour of Emile Adriaan B. van Rouveroy van Nieuwaal, edited by Wim van Binsbergen. Münster, Hamburg, London: LIT Verlag: 69–78.

Skalník, Petr. 2004. Chiefdom: A Universal Political Formation? Focaal - European Journal of Anthropology 43: 76–98.

Skalník, Petr. 2008. Rethinking Chiefdoms. In Beside the State: Emergent Powers in Contemporary Africa, edited by Alicia Bellagamba and Georg Klute. Köln: Köppe: 183–192.

Skalník, Petr. 2011. Chiefdom at War with Chiefless People while the State Looks on. Social Evolution and History 10 (1): 55–121.

Skalník, Petr. 2017a. War in Northern Ghana. Chiefdom of Nanuŋ, Chiefless Konkomba, and the Modern State. In Chiefdoms Yesterday and Today, edited by Robert L. Carneiro, Leonid E. Grinin and Andrey V. Korotayev. Clinton Corners, N.Y.: Eliot Werner Publications: 257–307.

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Skalník, Petr. 2018. Chiefs and Chiefdoms. In The International Encyclopaedia of Anthropology edited by Hilary Callan. Oxford: John Wiley and Sons. Article:, vol. 2: 815–820.

Skalník, Petr. 2019. Succession and Democracy in Nanuŋ, Northern Ghana. Asian and African Studies 28(2): 205–222.

Skalník, Petr. 2020. African Chiefs as Brokers of Democratic Political Culture. The Journal of Culture 9 (1): 4–7.