426 Pages
    by Routledge

    414 Pages
    by Routledge

    Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
    This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
    Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1969 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

    I: General; The Cultural Units of Africa; II: Political Economy; Patrimonialism and Gerontocracy in Benin Political Culture; From Fishing Village to City-state; From Nomadism to Cultivation; The Influence of Habitat and Trade on the Polities of Oyo and Ashanti; The Politics of Law; III: Problems in Kinship; Is Matriliny Doomed in Africa?; Unilineal Fact or Fiction; Differentiation and the Segmentary Principle in Two Societies; Witchcraft of the Sun; IV: Expression of Values; Femininity in Yoruba Religious Art; Friends and Twins in Bangwa; Symbolization and Patterning in the Circumcision Rites of two Bantu-speaking Societies; The Bushong Poison Ordeal; Oracles and Divination among the Lugbara; The Cult of the Bori Spirits among the Hausa; Death, Dreams, and the Ancestors in Mambila Culture; V: Enigmas of the Past; The Riddle of the Sphinx-monkey; Africa's Contribution to Paleopathology

    Biography

    Mary Douglas, Phyllis M. Kaberry