By Pamela Gulliver,P. H. Gulliver

ISBN-10: 1138232157

ISBN-13: 9781138232150

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark sequence in organization with the foreign African Institute. The sequence, initially released among 1950 and 1977, amassed ethnographic info at the peoples of Africa, utilizing all to be had assets: documents, memoirs and experiences in addition to anthropological examine which, in 1945, had in basic terms simply started.


Concise, serious and (for its time) actual, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows:




  • Physical Environment



  • Linguistic Data



  • Demography



  • History & Traditions of Origin



  • Nomenclature



  • Grouping



  • Cultural good points: faith, Witchcraft, beginning, Initiation, Burial



  • Social & Political association: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, conflict & Justice



  • Economy & Trade



  • Domestic Architecture


Each of the 50 volumes could be available for purchase separately, and those are geared up into neighborhood sub-groups: East primary Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West primary Africa, Western Africa, and valuable Africa Belgian Congo.


The volumes are supplemented with maps, on hand to view on routledge.com or to be had as a pdf from the publishers.


 

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