The Position of the Chief in the Modern Political System of Ashanti

K A Busia

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1951, this book provides an account of the traditional status and functions of the Asanti chief. The effects of British admini... Lees meer

French Perspectives in African Studies

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1973, this volume presents some of the main approaches that were developed by French Africanists during the 1940s, 50s and 60s... Lees meer

Benin Studies

R E Bradbury

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• This collection of R. E. Bradbury's papers, originally published in 1973 includes edited sections of his (then hitherto) unpublished thesis on the Ben... Lees meer

Sukumaland: An African People and Their Country

D. W. Malcolm

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1953, this book discusses the Sukuma people who represent the largest ethnic group in Tanzania. It is devoted mainly to the re... Lees meer

Good Company

Monica Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1951 this book is a study of village system in southern Tanzania, which at the time of publication was thought to be unique. E... Lees meer

Anthropology in Action

G Gordon Brown, A MCD Bruce Hutt

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1935, when the province of Iringa in what is now Tanzania was still under British administrative control, this book is inevita... Lees meer

French Perspectives in African Studies

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1973, this volume presents some of the main approaches that were developed by French Africanists during the 1940s, 50s and 60s... Lees meer

Survey of African Marriage and Family Life

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1953, this study examines the effect of social change on African domestic organization and marriage. Changes to African social... Lees meer

Pastoralism in Tropical Africa

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1975, the papers collected in this volume review African pastoralism in both West and East Africa, in relation to economy, eco... Lees meer

An African Aristocracy

Hilda Kuper

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1947 and reprinted with a new preface in 1961, this book is based on field studies and gives an account of the social organiza... Lees meer

Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa

Jack Goody

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1971 this book argues that certain aspects of traditional African social systems have been misunderstood because of a failure ... Lees meer

Efik Traders of Old Calabar

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1956 this book contains extracts of the 18th century diary of an Efik chief and documents the activities of slave-traders, the... 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 Bantu of North Kavirondo

Gunter Wagner

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1949, this is the first of 2 volumes studying the Bantu tribes inhabiting the westernmost part of Kenya. The book analyses fam... Lees meer

The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi

Meyer Fortes

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1949, this book takes the analysis of Tale social structure further. It shows how the patriarchal principle regulates domestic... Lees meer

Government in Zazzau

M G Smith

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1960, this is a details study of the successive forms of government in the Hausa chiefdom of Zaria in Northern Nigeria. It pre... Lees meer

Yakö Studies

Daryll Forde

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1964 this volume collects together 25 years' worth of journal articles from the UK and USA. It brings together detailed descri... Lees meer

The Sonjo of Tanganyika

Robert F Gray

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1963, this was the first monograph concerning an African people in which an irrigation-based society was studied in detail and... Lees meer

Christianity in Tropical Africa

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1968 this volume discusses the issues and problems relevant to Christianity in Tropical Africa. It includes historical studies... Lees meer

Survey of African Marriage and Family Life

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1953, this study examines the effect of social change on African domestic organization and marriage. Changes to African social... Lees meer

Communal Rituals of the Nyakyusa

Monica Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1959, this book includes detailed accounts of Nyakyusa traditions of origin, osmology and moral values, often in direct quotat... Lees meer

Umbundu Kinship and Character

Gladwyn Murray Childs

• Hardcover | 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

Nupe Religion

S F Nadel

• Hardcover | Engels | African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
• Originally published in 1954, this book is a pentrating study of Nupe religion and the increasing influence that Islam has had on indigenous forms of ... 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