Contributor
Ottenberg, Simon.
Imprint:New York : Random House, [1960]
Description614 p. : plates, col. map (on lining papers); 24 cm.
Note:1. Introduction: Africa and its peoples -- 2. PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT: The bushmen of South West Africa / L. Fourie -- The Bemba: their country and diet / Audrey I. Richards -- Rice, a Malagasy tradition / recorded by Ralph Linton -- The cultural map of West Africa: successive adaptations to tropical forests and grasslands / Daryll Forde -- Transhumance, migratory drift, migration: patterns of pastoral Fulani nomadism / Derrick J. Stenning -- 3. SOCIAL GROUPINGS: The structure of unilineal descent groups / Meyer Fortes -- Jie marriage / P.H. Gulliver -- The role of the secret society in cultural specialization / Kenneth L. Little -- Nandi age-sets / G.W.B. Huntingford -- Nyakyusa age-villages / Monica Wilson -- The pattern of residence among the Lele / Mary Douglas -- Urbanization among the Yoruba / William Bascom -- 4. AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT: The political system of Konkomba / David Tait -- Headmanship and the ritual of Luapula villages / Ian Cunnison -- The Ashanti constitution / Robert S. Rattray -- The problem of Tutsi domination / J.J. Maquet -- History in a changing society / J.A. Barnes -- Extra-processual events in Tiv political institutions / Paul Bohannan -- 5. VALUES, RELIGION, AND AESTHETICS: An African morlaity / Godfrey Wilson -- The idea of person among the Dogon / Marcel Giraule -- Ancestral spirits among the plateau Tonga / E. Colson -- The sacrificial role of cattle among the Nuer / E.E. Evans-Pritchard -- Witchcraft in four African societies: an essay in comparison / S.F. Nadel -- Initiation among the Bambuti pygmies of the Central Ituri / Colin M. Turnbull -- Negro folklore / Melville J. Herskovits - The study of African art / William Fagg -- 6. CULTURE CONTACT AND CHANGE: Some aspects of Negro-Mohammedan culture-contact among the Hausa / Joseph H. Greenberg -- Christianity and the Tswana / I. Schapera -- The predicament of the modern African chief: an instance from Uganda / Lloyd Fallers -- Dynamics of urbanization in Africa / Daniel F. McCall -- The uniform of color in Swaziland / Hilda Kuper -- Life in a Johannesburg slum yard / Ellen Hellmann.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. 565-598.
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