Fardon, Richard, 1991. Between God, the Dead and the Wild. Chamba interpretations of ritual and religion. International African Library vol. Africa has long posed problems for structuralism.
Some groups do it, others seem less interested.
The ethnography of the Chamba reveals the problems at their starkest. Here we have a group of people asserting a common identity with no common language, political organisation or cosmology. Discussion of religion and cosmology is now added to the sociopolitical discussion of the previous book. Fardon takes two villages within a few hours walk of one another to exemplify the contrasting types of explanation that he discusses. Yeli has a hierarchical political structure which once dominated a wide area of the surrounding countryside.