Title: The African frontier : the reproduction of traditional African societies /
Authors: Kopytoff, Igor.
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 1987
Subjects: Ethnic barriers.; Frontier thesis.; Ethnology Africa; Africa Social conditions.
Contents: The internal African frontier: the making of African political culture / Igor Kopytoff -- Ideology and state fromation: the Ekie of Southern Zaire / Nancy J. Fairley --Political structure and ethnicity in an immigrant society: the Goba of the Zambezi / Chet S. Lancaster -- Kinship and territory in the history of a Kpelle chiefdom (Liberia) / William P. Murphy and Caroline H. Bledsoe -- Debating in a common idiom: variant traditions of genesis among the BaShu of eastern Zaire / Randall M. Packard -- "Bunyabungo": the western Rwandan frontier, c. 1750-1850 / David Newbury -- An Islamic frontier polity: the Ningi mountains of northern Nigeria, 1846-1902 / Adell Patton, Jr. -- Social construction on the Somali frontier: Bantu former slave communities in the nineteenth century / Lee V. Cassanelli -- Mto wa Mbu: a rural polyethnic community in Tanzania / W. Arens -- The urban frontier in West Africa: Mushin, Nigeria / Sandra T. Barnes.