Part 1: The Growth of Freetown
1. Tribal Settlements in a Creole City
2. Problems of Administration
Part 2: Internal Migration
3. The Background to Rural Emigration
4. Migration and Employment Part 3: Urban Structure and Tribal Institutions
5. Freetown's Population
6. Ethnic Groups and their Relations
7. Tribal Groups and Religious Alignments
8. Tribal Headmen
9. Young Men's Companies Among the Temne
10. Other Voluntary Associations
11. The Household
12. Summary and Conclusions
Appendices: 1. 'Rules for Alimamies of Alien Tribes in Freetown' Made Between 1888 and 1892
2. Texts of Selected Temne Company Songs
Biography
Michael Banton was Lecturer, and subsequently Reader, in Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh, 1954-65, and professor of Sociology, University of Bristol, 1965-92. He was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1987-89, and President of the Sociology section, (1970-71) and the Anthropology section, (1985 - 86) within the British Association for the Advancement of Science.
