An edition of Peoples and cultures of Africa
(1973)
Peoples and cultures of Africa
an anthropological reader.
[1st ed.]
by Elliott Percival Skinner
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Table of Contents
Basic characteristics of Africa and its peoples. African landscapes / Lucile Carlson
The prehistoric origins of African culture / J. Desmond Clark
Human biological diversity in Africa / Alexander Alland, Jr.
African languages / Joseph H. Greenberg
Speculations on the economic prehistory of Africa / Christopher Wrigley
Ecology, economy, and habitation. Hunting among the Kalahari Bushmen / John Marshall
The role of hunting and fishing in Luvale society / C. M. N. White
Seasonal movements of the Kababish Arabs of Northern Kordofan [Sudan] / Talal Asad
The subsistence role of cattle among the Pakot and in East Africa / Harold K. Schneider
Farming practice, settlement pattern, and population density in South-eastern Nigeria / W. B. Morgan
West African economic systems / Elliott P. Skinner
African Architecture / Julius F. Gluck
African social institutions. Tsimihety kinship and descent / Peter J. Wilson
Marriage system / Jomo Kenyatta
Women in a pastoral society / Marguerite Dupire
Initiation rituals of the Bushong / J. Vansina
Intergenerational conflict among the Mossi : father and son / Elliott P. Skinner
Sidamo generational class cycles : a political gerontocracy / John H. Hamer
A case study of ideas concerning disease among the Tiv / D. R. Price-Williams
Nyoro mortuary rites / J. H. M. Beattie
African political institutions. Social control and vengeance in plateau Tonga society / Elizabeth Colson
Power and stratification in Rwanda : a reconsideration / Rene Lemarchand
The Zande state / E. E. Evans-Pritchard
The sources of law in Tswana tribal courts : legislation and precedent / I. Schapera
The military organization of the Zulus / E. J. Icrige
African aesthetics and recreation. The role of proverbs in Fante culture / James Boyd Christensen
Oral literature and social behavior in Black Africa / Denise Paulme
Some aspects of Swahili poetry / Jan Knappert
The social functions and meaning of Hausa praise-singing / M. G. Smith
African music / O. J. H. Kwabena Nketia
The Kalabari Ekine Society : a borderland of religion and art / Robin Horton
African beliefs and religions. The Mande creation myth / Germaine Dieterlen
An outline of the cosmology and cult organization of the Oyo Yoruba / Peter Morton-Williams
Coptic Christianity / A. J. Davis
The Ethiopic liturgy : an analysis / Claude Sumner
The Phases of Islamic expansion and Islamic culture zones in Africa / J. S. Trimingham.
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Bibliography: p. [712]-741.
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| August 17, 2012 | Edited by Ben Companjen | corrected TOC format |
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