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1. Custom and Politics in Urban Africa

   A Study of Hausa Migrants in Yoruba Towns, 2nd Edition

   By Abner Cohen

   Series: Routledge Classic Ethnographies

   Based on Cohen's fieldwork in the 1960s among the Hausa migrants, a people of the Yoruba area (then the western region of the Federation of Nigeria), Custom and Politics in Urban Africa looks at how ethnic groups use elements of tradition in jostling for power and privilege in new urban situations....

   Published November 19th 2003 by Routledge
2. Aboriginal Woman Sacred and Profane

   2nd Edition

   By Phyllis Kaberry

   Series: Routledge Classic Ethnographies

   First published in 1939 by Routledge, this classic ethnography portrays the aboriginal woman as she really is - a complex social personality with her own prerogatives, duties, problems, beliefs, rituals and point of view. This groundbreaking and enduring study was researched in North-West Australia...

   Published November 19th 2003 by Routledge
3. Women of the Grassfields

   A Study of the Economic Position of Women in Barmenda, British Cameroons, 2nd Edition

   By Phyllis Kaberry

   Series: Routledge Classic Ethnographies

   This classic ethnography examines the social and economic position of women in Bamena, British Cameroons, in 1944. The field study was prompted by the conditions in Bamenda, when despite considerable natural resources, there was underpopulation, a very high infant mortality, and the status of women...

   Published November 19th 2003 by Routledge
4. Stone Age Economics

   2nd Edition

   By Marshall Sahlins, Marshall Sahlins

   Series: Routledge Classic Ethnographies

   Stone Age Economics is a classic of economic anthropology, ambitiously tackling the nature of economic life and how to study it comparatively. This collection of six influential essays is one of Marshall Sahlins' most important and enduring works, claiming that stone age economies formed the...

   Published November 19th 2003 by Routledge
5. Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe

   A Functional Study of Nutrition Among the Southern Bantu, 2nd Edition

   By Audrey Richards

   Series: Routledge Classic Ethnographies

   Hunger and Work in a Savage Tribe examines the cultural aspects of food and eating among the Southern Bantu, taking as its starting point the bold statement 'nutrition as a biological process is more fundamental than sex'. When it was first published in 1932, with a preface by Malinowski, it laid...

   Published November 12th 2003 by Routledge
6. The Samburu

   A Study in Geocentracy, 2nd Edition

   By Paul Spencer

   Series: Routledge Classic Ethnographies

   Published November 12th 2003 by Routledge
7. The Maasai of Matapato

   A Study of Rituals of Rebellion, 2nd Edition

   By Paul Spencer, Paul Spencer

   Series: Routledge Classic Ethnographies

   Published November 12th 2003 by Routledge