Man in Africa

Author(s)

• Douglas, Mary Tew
• Kaberry, Phyllis Mary

Bibliographic Information

Man in Africa

edited by Mary Douglas and Phyllis M. Kaberry

（The international behavioural and social sciences library, . Anthropology ; 4）

Routledge, 2001

• : set

Note

Reprint. Originally published: London : Tavistock Publications, 1969

Bibliography of Professor Daryll Forde: p. 349-353

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780415263948

Description

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press. 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.

Table of Contents

• I: General
• The Cultural Units of Africa
• II: Political Economy
• Patrimonialism and Gerontocracy in Benin Political Culture
• From Fishing Village to City-state
• From Nomadism to Cultivation
• The Influence of Habitat and Trade on the Polities of Oyo and Ashanti
• The Politics of Law
• III: Problems in Kinship
• Is Matriliny Doomed in Africa?
• Unilineal Fact or Fiction
• Differentiation and the Segmentary Principle in Two Societies
• Witchcraft of the Sun
• IV: Expression of Values
• Femininity in Yoruba Religious Art
• Friends and Twins in Bangwa
• Symbolization and Patterning in the Circumcision Rites of two Bantu-speaking Societies
• The Bushong Poison Ordeal
• Oracles and Divination among the Lugbara
• The Cult of the Bori Spirits among the Hausa
• Death, Dreams, and the Ancestors in Mambila Culture
• V: Enigmas of the Past
• The Riddle of the Sphinx-monkey
• Africa's Contribution to Paleopathology

Volume

: set ISBN 9780415265058

Description

Anthropological observations on mankind have been instrumental in the development of the behavioural and social sciences. The Tavistock Press published many key works in this area and, reprinted here, is a selection of those titles which helped to inform further research into the study of human relations. Titles include the classic work Man in Africa, edited by Mary Douglas and Phyllis M. Kaberry, which provides challenges of far-reaching significance to the study of anthropology as a whole. Other areas covered include consumerism, urban ethnicity, social Darwinism and sociolinguistics.

Table of Contents

Banton Darwinism and the Study of Society (1961) Hb: 0-415-26391-3 Beidelman ^ The Translation of Culture: Essays to EE Evans-Pritchard (1971) Hb: 0-415-26392-1 Cohen Urban Ethnicity (1974) Hb: 0-415-26393-X Douglas and Kaberry Man in Africa (1969) Hb: 0-415-26394-8 Hirst and Reekie The Consumer Society (1977) Hb: 0-415-26395-6 Hymes Foundations in Sociolinguistics (1977) Hb: 0-415-26396-4

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Details

• NCID: BA54621548
• ISBN:
  • 0415265053
  • 0415263948
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xxvii, 372 p., [8] p. of plates
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : GN645
  • DC : 301.29/6
  • NDC8 : 389.4
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Ethnology -- Africa
  • FREE : Forde, Cyril Daryll, 1902-
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA54342078