Cover Image

Cultures and societies of Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Ottenberg, Simon (Editor), Ottenberg, Phoebe (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, [1960]
Subjects:
Ethnology > Africa.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction: Africa and its people
  • 2. People and environment: The bushmen of south west Africa / L. Fourie
  • The Bemba -their country and diet / Audrey I. Richards
  • Rice, a Malagasy tradition / recorded by Ralph Linton
  • The cultural map of west Africa: successive adaptations to tropical forests and grasslands / Daryll Forde
  • Transhumance, migratory drift, migration: patterns of pastoral Fulani nomadism / Derrick J. Stenning
  • 3. Social groupings: The structure of unilineal descent groups / Meyer Fortes
  • Jie marriage / P.H. Gulliver
  • The role of the secret society in cultural specialization / K.L. Little
  • Nyakyusa age-villages / Monica Wilson
  • The patterns of residence among the Lele / Mary Douglas
  • Urbanization among the Yoruba / William Bascom
  • 4. Authority and government: The political system of Konkomba / David Tait
  • Headmanship and the ritual of Luapula villages / Ian Cunnison
  • The Ashanti Constitution / Robert S. Rattray
  • The problem of Tutsi domination / J.J. Maquet
  • History in a changing society / J.A. Barnes
  • Extra-processual events in Tiv political institutions / Paul Bohannan
  • 5. Values, religion, and aesthetics: An African morality / Godfrey Wilson
  • The idea of person among the Dogon / Marcel Griaule
  • Ancestral spirits among the plateau Tonga / E. Colson
  • The sacrificial role of cattle among the Nuer / E.E. Evans-Pritchard
  • Witchcraft in four African societies: an essay in comparison / S.F. Nadel
  • Initiation among the Bambuti pygmies of the central Ituri / Colin M. Trunbull
  • Negro folklore / Melville J. Herskovits
  • The study of African art / William Fagg
  • 6. Culture contact and change: Some aspects of Negro-Mohammedan culture-contact among the Hausa / Joseph H. Greenberg
  • Christianity and the Tswana / I. Schapera
  • The predicament of the modern African chief: an instance from Uganda / Lloyd Fallers
  • Dynamics of urbanization in Africa / Daniel F. McCall
  • The uniform of color in Swaziland / Hilda Kuper
  • Life in a Johannesburg slum yard / Ellen Hellmann.