1st Edition

Tribe and Class in Monrovia

By Merran Fraenkel Copyright 1964
268 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

Originally published in 1964, this book analyses the unique type of social stratification which is more akin to a social class system in Monrovia, Liberia's capital. Liberia, established in 1847 has no history of rule by a colonial power and is of perculiar sociological interest, having been governed until the first half of the twentieth century by a minority group of immigrants from... Read more

1. The Past

2. Monrovia Today

3. The Tribal Communities and Tribal Administration

4. Kinship and the Household

5. Churches and Societies

6. Social Stratification and Social Mobility

Biography

Merran Fraenkel