Cultures and societies of Africa /
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Language: English
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New York :
Random House,
[1960]
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Call Number: GN645 .O75 1960
Table of Contents:
- 1.
- 2.
- 3.
- 4.
- 5.
- 6.
- L. Fourie
- Audrey I. Richards
- recorded by Ralph Linton
- Daryll Forde
- Derrick J. Stenning
- Meyer Fortes
- P.H. Gulliver
- K.L. Little
- Monica Wilson
- Mary Douglas
- William Bascom
- David Tait
- Ian Cunnison
- Robert S. Rattray
- J. J. Maquet
- J.A. Barnes
- Paul Bohannan
- Godfrey Wilson
- Marcel Griaule
- E. Colson
- E.E. Evans-Pritchard
- S.F. Nadel
- Colin M. Trunbull
- Melville J. Herskovits
- William Fagg
- Joseph H. Greenberg
- I. Schapera
- Lloyd Fallers
- Daniel F. McCall
- Hilda Kuper
- Ellen Hellmann.
- Introduction:
- Africa and its people
- People and environment:
- The bushmen of south west Africa /
- The Bemba -their country and diet /
- Rice, a Malagasy tradition /
- The cultural map of west Africa: successive adaptations to tropical forests and grasslands /
- Transhumance, migratory drift, migration: patterns of pastoral Fulani nomadism /
- Social groupings:
- The structure of unilineal descent groups /
- Jie marriage /
- The role of the secret society in cultural specialization /
- Nyakyusa age-villages /
- The patterns of residence among the Lele /
- Urbanization among the Yoruba /
- Authority and government:
- The political system of Konkomba /
- Headmanship and the ritual of Luapula villages /
- The Ashanti Constitution /
- The problem of Tutsi domination /
- History in a changing society /
- Extra-processual events in Tiv political institutions /
- Values, religion, and aesthetics:
- An African morality /
- The idea of person among the Dogon /
- Ancestral spirits among the plateau Tonga /
- The sacrificial role of cattle among the Nuer /
- Witchcraft in four African societies: an essay in comparison /
- Initiation among the Bambuti pygmies of the central Ituri /
- Negro folklore /
- The study of African art /
- Culture contact and change:
- Some aspects of Negro-Mohammedan culture-contact among the Hausa /
- Christianity and the Tswana /
- The predicament of the modern African chief: an instance from Uganda /
- Dynamics of urbanization in Africa /
- The uniform of color in Swaziland /
- Life in a Johannesburg slum yard /