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020 _a9781138861763
028 _aTechnical Bureau India Pvt Ltd.
_bE/261, Shastri Nagar, Delhi 110052
_cTB2506
_d16/01/2021
082 _a301.296 DOU
100 _aDouglas, Mary.
_a;Forde, Daryll.
245 _aMan in Africa.
_c/ Mary Douglas.
260 _aLondon ; New York
_b: Tavistock Publications
_c, 1969.
300 _axxvii, 372 pages : 8 plates,
_b illustrations, 3 maps
_c; 23 cm.
365 _b4477
505 _aForeword, 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).
520 _aReproduced 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.
650 _aEthnology.
655 _bAfrica.
655 _bAnthropologie.
655 _bEthnology -- Africa.
700 _aMary Douglas.
942 _cBOOK