Man in Africa.
Douglas, Mary. ;Forde, Daryll.
Man in Africa. / Mary Douglas. - London ; New York : Tavistock Publications , 1969. - xxvii, 372 pages : 8 plates, illustrations, 3 maps ; 23 cm.
Foreword, by M.G. Smith.--the cultural units of Africa: a classificatory problem, by J. Maquet.--Patrimonialism and gerontocracy in Benin political culture, by R.E. Bradbury.--From fishing village to city-state: a social history of New Calabar, by R. Horton.--From nomadism to cultivation: the expansion of political solidarity in southern Somalia, by I.M. Lewis.--The influence of habitat and trade on the polities of Oyo and Ashanti, by P. Morton-Williams.--The politics of law, by J.A. Barnes.--Is mat iliny doomed in Africa? By M. Douglas.--Unilineal fact or fiction: a further contribution, by R. Harris.--Differentiation and the segmentary principle in two societies, by M.G. Smith.--Witchcaft of the sun: Incest in Nso, by P.M. Kaberry.--
Femininity in Yoruba religious art, by C. Odugbesan.--Friends and twins in Bangwa, by R. Brain.--Symbolization and patterning in the circumcision rites of two Bantu-speaking societies, by V.W. Turner. The Bushong poison ordeal, by J. Vansina.--Oracles and divination among the Lugbara, by J. Middleton.--The cult of the Borl spirits among the Hausa, by M. Onwuejeogwu.--Death, dreams, and the ancestors in Marabila culture, by F. Rehfisch.--The riddle of the sphinx-monkey, by C.J. Jolly and P.J. Ucko.--Africa's contribution to palaeopathology: from the past to the future, by D.R. Brothwell.--Bibliography of Professor Daryll Forde, compiled by K. Attwood (p. 349-353).
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1969 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
9781138861763
Technical Bureau India Pvt Ltd. E/261, Shastri Nagar, Delhi 110052
Ethnology.
--Africa.--Anthropologie.--Ethnology -- Africa.
301.296 DOU
Man in Africa. / Mary Douglas. - London ; New York : Tavistock Publications , 1969. - xxvii, 372 pages : 8 plates, illustrations, 3 maps ; 23 cm.
Foreword, by M.G. Smith.--the cultural units of Africa: a classificatory problem, by J. Maquet.--Patrimonialism and gerontocracy in Benin political culture, by R.E. Bradbury.--From fishing village to city-state: a social history of New Calabar, by R. Horton.--From nomadism to cultivation: the expansion of political solidarity in southern Somalia, by I.M. Lewis.--The influence of habitat and trade on the polities of Oyo and Ashanti, by P. Morton-Williams.--The politics of law, by J.A. Barnes.--Is mat iliny doomed in Africa? By M. Douglas.--Unilineal fact or fiction: a further contribution, by R. Harris.--Differentiation and the segmentary principle in two societies, by M.G. Smith.--Witchcaft of the sun: Incest in Nso, by P.M. Kaberry.--
Femininity in Yoruba religious art, by C. Odugbesan.--Friends and twins in Bangwa, by R. Brain.--Symbolization and patterning in the circumcision rites of two Bantu-speaking societies, by V.W. Turner. The Bushong poison ordeal, by J. Vansina.--Oracles and divination among the Lugbara, by J. Middleton.--The cult of the Borl spirits among the Hausa, by M. Onwuejeogwu.--Death, dreams, and the ancestors in Marabila culture, by F. Rehfisch.--The riddle of the sphinx-monkey, by C.J. Jolly and P.J. Ucko.--Africa's contribution to palaeopathology: from the past to the future, by D.R. Brothwell.--Bibliography of Professor Daryll Forde, compiled by K. Attwood (p. 349-353).
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1969 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.
9781138861763
Technical Bureau India Pvt Ltd. E/261, Shastri Nagar, Delhi 110052
Ethnology.
--Africa.--Anthropologie.--Ethnology -- Africa.
301.296 DOU
