Routledge is delighted to be re-issuing 79 volumes originally published between 1931 and 1988 in association with the International African Institute. Unavailable outside a few key libraries, many of these republished volumes were at the cutting edge of a fieldwork and ethnographic revolution in African anthropology in the decades after 1930. It involved the production of a wide body of fieldwork-based ethnographic documentation about the cultures of the different societies in Africa. Secondly, it saw a methodological turn to intense, localized investigations of cultural tradition and social change in a rapidly modernizing context. These investigations involved a more sustained and systematic, more professional and ‘scientific’ form of immersion and participant observation, than anything that had gone before. The sites of engagement were urban as well as rural; the pioneering researchers were female as well as male. No longer was the journal essay the repository of the latest research in the discipline, but rich ethnographies running into hundreds of pages.
The volumes are supplemented with maps, which will be available to view on https://www.routledge.com/ or available as pdfs from the publishers.
1. Edited by Pierre Alexandre French Perspectives in African Studies: a collection of translated essays https://www.routledge.com/French-Perspectives-in-African-Studies-A-Collection-of-Translated-Essays/Alexandre/p/book/9781138485068
2. Samir Amin Modern Migrations in Western Africa
3. Hugh Ashton The Basuto
4. C. G. Baëta Christianity in Tropical Africa
5. Michael Banton West African City
6. B. Bernardi The Mugwe
7. Edited by Daniel Biebuyck African Agrarian Systems
8. Paul Bohannan Justice and Judgement among the Tiv
9. E. W. Bovill Caravans of the Old Sahara
10. R. E. Bradbury Benin Studies
11. G. Gordon Brown and A. McD. Bruce Hutt Anthropology in Action
12. K. A. Busia The Position of the Chief in the Modern Political system of Ashanti
13. Ann Patricia Caplan Choice and Constraint in a Swahili Community
14. A. W. Cardinall Tales Told in Togoland
15. Gladwyn Murray Childs Umbundu Kinship and Character
16. Hans Cory Sukuma Law and Custom
17. Hans Cory and M. M. Hartnoll Customary Law of the Haya Tribe
18. J. R. Crawford Witchcraft and Sorcery in Rhodesia
19. Robert Delavignette Freedom and Authority in French West Africa
20. Dora Earthy Valenge Women
21. May M. Edel The Chiga of Western Uganda
22. Adrian Edwards The Ovimbundu under Two Sovereignties
23. Daryll Forde Marriage and the Family among the Yako in South-Eastern Nigeria
24. Daryll Forde Yakö Studies
25. Daryll Forde Efik Traders of Old Calabar
26. Edited by Daryll Forde and P. M. Kaberry West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century
27. Meyer Fortes The Dynamics of Clanship among the Tallensi
28. Meyer Fortes The Web of Kinship among the Tallensi
29. Merran Fraenkel Tribe and Class in Monrovia
30. Edited by Max Gluckman Ideas and Procedures in African Customary Law
31. Jack Goody The Social Organisation of the Lo Wiili
32. Jack Goody Changing social structure in Ghana
33. Jack Goody Technology and Tradition and the State of Africa
34. Robert F. Gray The Sonjo of Tanganyika
35. Alan Harwood Witchcraft, Sorcery and Social Categories among the Safwa
36. C. Edward Hopen The Pastoral Fulbe family in Gwandu
37. P. P. Howell A Manual of Nuer Law
38. A. H. M. Kirk-Greene Adamawa Past and Present
39. E. Jensen Krige The Realm of a Rain Queen
40. Hilda Kuper An African Aristocracy
41. H. E. Lambert Kikuyu Social and Political Institutions
42. Robin Law The Horse in West African History
43. Rowena M. Lawson The Changing Economy of the Lower Volta 1954-67
44. P. C. Lloyd The New Elites of Tropical Africa
45. D. W. Malcolm Sukumaland
46. Jacques J. Maquet The Premise of Inequality in Ruanda
47. Claude Meillassoux The Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa
48. Théodore Monod Pastoralism in Tropical Africa
49. S. F. Nadel A Black Byzantium
50. S. F. Nadel Nupe Religion
51. L.F. Nalder A Tribal Survey of Mongalla Province
52. G. St. J Orde-Browne The African Labourer
53. David Parkin Town and Country in Central and Eastern Africa
54. B. A. Pauw Religion in a Tswana Chiefdom
55. Arthur Phillips Survey of African Marriage and Family Life
56. Valdo Pons Stanleyville
57. Edited by Michael S. Sadler Arts of West Africa
58. Lamin O. Sanneh The Jakhanke
59. William A. Shack The Gurage
60. M. G. Smith Government in Zazzau, 1800-1950
61. Edited by Aidan Southall Social Change in Modern Africa
62. Hugh A. Stayt The Bavenda
63. Bronislaw Stefaniszyn Social and Ritual Life of the Ambo of Northern Rhodesia
64. Bengt G. M. Sundkler Bantu Prophets in South Africa
65. David Tait The Konkomba of Northern Ghana
66. Richard Thurnwald Economics in Primitive Communities
67. Hugh Tracey Chopi Musicians: their music, poetry and instruments
68. V.W. Turner The Drums of Affliction
69. Jan Vansina The Historian in Tropical Africa
70. Jan Vansina The Tio Kingdom of the Middle Kongo 1880-1892
71. Gunter Wagner The Bantu of North Kavirondo Vol 1
72. Gunter Wagner The Bantu of North Kavirondo Vol 2
73. A. K. H. Weinrich African Farmers in Rhodesia
74. Diedrich Westermann The African Today
75. Monica H. Wilson Good Company
76. Monica H. Wilson Rituals of Kinship among the Nyakyusa
77. Monica H. Wilson Communal Rituals of the Nyakyusa
78. Monica H. Wilson For Men and Elders
79. R. L. Wishlade Sectarianism in Southern Nyasaland
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'The International African Institute was at the cutting edge of a fieldwork and ethnographic revolution in African anthropology after 1930. These studies, re-issued by Routledge offer access to these hidden treasures. ' Andrew Bank, University of the Western Cape
