| Description |
614 pages : plates, color map (on lining papers) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 565-598. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Africa and its people -- 2. People and environment: Bushmen of south west Africa / L. Fourie -- Bemba -their country and diet / Audrey I. Richards -- Rice, a Malagasy tradition / recorded by Ralph Linton -- Cultural map of west Africa: successive adaptations to tropical forests and grasslands / Daryll Forde -- Transhumance, migratory drift, migration: patterns of pastoral Fulani nomadism / Derrick J. Stenning -- 3. Social groupings: Structure of unilineal descent groups / Meyer Fortes -- Jie marriage / P.H. Gulliver -- Role of the secret society in cultural specialization / K.L. Little -- Nyakyusa age-villages / Monica Wilson -- Patterns of residence among the Lele / Mary Douglas -- Urbanization among the Yoruba / William Bascom -- 4. Authority and government: Political system of Konkomba / David Tait -- Headmanship and the ritual of Luapula villages / Ian Cunnison -- Ashanti Constitution / Robert S. Rattray -- Problem of Tutsi domination / J.J. Maquet -- History in a changing society / J.A. Barnes -- Extra-processual events in Tiv political institutions / Paul Bohannan -- 5. Values, religion, and aesthetics: An African morality / Godfrey Wilson -- Idea of person among the Dogon / Marcel Griaule -- Ancestral spirits among the plateau Tonga / E. Colson -- Sacrificial role of cattle among the Nuer / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- Witchcraft in four African societies: an essay in comparison / S.F. Nadel -- Initiation among the Bambuti pygmies of the central Ituri / Colin M. Trunbull -- Negro folklore / Melville J. Herskovits -- Study of African art / William Fagg -- 6. Culture contact and change: Some aspects of Negro-Mohammedan culture-contact among the Hausa / Joseph H. Greenberg -- Christianity and the Tswana / I. Schapera -- Predicament of the modern African chief: an instance from Uganda / Lloyd Fallers -- Dynamics of urbanization in Africa / Daniel F. McCall -- Uniform of color in Swaziland / Hilda Kuper -- Life in a Johannesburg slum yard / Ellen Hellmann. |
| Subject |
Ethnology -- Africa.
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Ethnology. |
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Africa. |
| Added Author |
Ottenberg, Phoebe.
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