The New Elites of Tropical Africa

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1966, this book brings together papers dealing with the emergence and development of elites in sub-Saharan Africa among social... Lees meer

Chopi Musicians

Hugh Tracey

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1948 and updated with a new introduction in 1970 this book is a classic study on the musical life of a Bantu people in Mozambi... Lees meer

Adamawa Past and Present

A H M Kirk-Greene

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1958 this book presents a straight-forward and vivid picture of Adamawa Province in Nigeria. It discusses the varying fortunes... Lees meer

A Tribal Survey of Mongalla Province

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1937, this book describes and compares the tribes of the Mongalla Province in what is now South Sudan. In the second part of t... Lees meer

Changing Social Structure in Ghana

Jack Goody

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1975, this book presents the results of research into social change in Ghana. The book looks in detail at the problems of part... Lees meer

The Jakhanke

Lamin O Sanneh

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• When originally published in 1979, this was the first comprehensive study of the Jakhanke in any language. Despite the 19th ambience of jihad , the Ja... Lees meer

The Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1971 and written in English and French, with summaries in both languages, the essays in this volume dsicuss the effects of int... Lees meer

The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi

Meyer Fortes

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1945, this book analyses Tale social structure at the level of corporate group organization. Tale culture is discussed primari... Lees meer

Umbundu Kinship and Character

Gladwyn Murray Childs

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1949, this book discusses Umbundu social structure and education, with particular reference to how both of these adapted as An... Lees meer

Economics in Primitive Communities

Richard Thurnwald

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1932, this book discusses aspects of economic life in Africa. Detailed consideration is given to food production, population i... Lees meer

African Agrarian Systems

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1963 this volume surveys various aspects of the complex relations between rights in land, social organization and economic int... Lees meer

The Pastoral Fulbe Family in Gwandu

C Edward Hopen

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1958, this book discusses how marriage and Fulbe family life, the economy and the whole organization of society is centred on ... Lees meer

The Gurage

William A Shack

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1966 this study gives a detailed account of all aspects of Gurage life. An introductory chapter on South-West Ethiopia and the... Lees meer

The Changing Economy of the Lower Volta 1954-67

Rowena M Lawson

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1972 this study analyses the process of economic growth and social change in the riparian communities of the Lower Volta River... Lees meer

Kikuyu

H E Lambert

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1956, the main emphasis of the book is on the complex age-set organization which constitutes the framework within which the li... Lees meer

African Farmers in Rhodesia

A K H Weinrich

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1975 this book analyses the factors making for success and failure in agricultural development among black Zimbabweans during ... Lees meer

The Bantu of North Kavirondo

Gunter Wagner

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1956, this second volume of the Bantu of North Kenya (Kavirondo) discusses the traditional Bantu economy, as well as 20th cent... Lees meer

Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rhodesia

J R Crawford

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1967, this book is a study of witchcraft and sorcery among the Shona, Ndebele and Kalanga peoples of Zimbabwe. It analyses in ... Lees meer

The Horse in West African History

Robin Law

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1980 and here re-issued with an updated preface, this book deals with the role of the horse in the societies of West Africa du... Lees meer

The Basuto

Hugh Ashton

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1952 and as a second edition in 1967 this volume provides a systematic and comprehensive account of the Basuto people and thei... Lees meer

Choice and Constraint in a Swahili Community

Ann Patricia Caplan

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1975, this book examines property and power relations in a Swahili village on Mafia Island off Tanzania. It focuses on the cog... Lees meer

Caravans of the Old Sahara

E W Bovill

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Since publication in 1957 the importance of Bohannan's study of judicial institutions and procedures among the Tiv has been widely recognized. It has ... Lees meer

Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• The 18 papers in this volume, originally published in 1969 in English and French, with summaries in the other language, define and analyze in their wi... Lees meer

Social and Ritual Life of the Ambo of Northern Rhodesia

Bronislaw Stefaniszyn

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1964, this is a detailed ethnographic record and sympathetic study of Ambo beliefs and activities. The significance of the cla... Lees meer