Peoples and cultures of Africa
Subtitle: an anthropological reader.
By: Edited and with sectional introductions by Elliott P. Skinner.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Published for the American Museum of Natural History [by] Natural History Press
Published: 1973
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 756
Subjects: Ethnology -- Africa.
Notes: Bibliography: p. [712]-741.
Table of contents: title: Basic characteristics of Africa and its peoples. African landscapes / Lucile Carlson; title: The prehistoric origins of African culture / J. Desmond Clark; title: Human biological diversity in Africa / Alexander Alland, Jr.; title: African languages / Joseph H. Greenberg; title: Speculations on the economic prehistory of Africa / Christopher Wrigley; title: Ecology, economy, and habitation. Hunting among the Kalahari Bushmen / John Marshall; title: The role of hunting and fishing in Luvale society / C. M. N. White; title: Seasonal movements of the Kababish Arabs of Northern Kordofan [Sudan] / Talal Asad; title: The subsistence role of cattle among the Pakot and in East Africa / Harold K. Schneider; title: Farming practice, settlement pattern, and population density in South-eastern Nigeria / W. B. Morgan; title: West African economic systems / Elliott P. Skinner; title: African Architecture / Julius F. Gluck; title: African social institutions. Tsimihety kinship and descent / Peter J. Wilson; title: Marriage system / Jomo Kenyatta; title: Women in a pastoral society / Marguerite Dupire; title: Initiation rituals of the Bushong / J. Vansina; title: Intergenerational conflict among the Mossi : father and son / Elliott P. Skinner; title: Sidamo generational class cycles : a political gerontocracy / John H. Hamer; title: A case study of ideas concerning disease among the Tiv / D. R. Price-Williams; title: Nyoro mortuary rites / J. H. M. Beattie; title: African political institutions. Social control and vengeance in plateau Tonga society / Elizabeth Colson; title: Power and stratification in Rwanda : a reconsideration / Rene Lemarchand; title: The Zande state / E. E. Evans-Pritchard; title: The sources of law in Tswana tribal courts : legislation and precedent / I. Schapera; title: The military organization of the Zulus / E. J. Icrige; title: African aesthetics and recreation. The role of proverbs in Fante culture / James Boyd Christensen; title: Oral literature and social behavior in Black Africa / Denise Paulme; title: Some aspects of Swahili poetry / Jan Knappert; title: The social functions and meaning of Hausa praise-singing / M. G. Smith; title: African music / O. J. H. Kwabena Nketia; title: The Kalabari Ekine Society : a borderland of religion and art / Robin Horton; title: African beliefs and religions. The Mande creation myth / Germaine Dieterlen; title: An outline of the cosmology and cult organization of the Oyo Yoruba / Peter Morton-Williams; title: Coptic Christianity / A. J. Davis; title: The Ethiopic liturgy : an analysis / Claude Sumner; title: The Phases of Islamic expansion and Islamic culture zones in Africa / J. S. Trimingham.