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Routledge
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Routledge
426 Pages
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Routledge
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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... Read more
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
