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  • Religion in a Tswana Chiefdom Religion in a Tswana Chiefdom
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    Religion in a Tswana Chiefdom

    Originally published in 1960, this book is a study of religion among the Tlhaping, a rural Bantu society who were the first among the Tswana tribes to come into contact with Europeans. The religious...
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  • Nupe Religion Nupe Religion
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    Nupe Religion

    Originally published in 1954, this book is a pentrating study of Nupe religion and the increasing influence that Islam has had on indigenous forms of worship. The practise of witchcraft, forms of...
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  • A Black Byzantium A Black Byzantium
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    A Black Byzantium

    Originally published in 1942 this now classic book is a study of the Nupe of Northern Nigeria. The economic and political complexity of their kingdom evoked comparisons with the civilization of...
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  • Sukumaland Sukumaland
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    Sukumaland

    Originally published in 1953, this book discusses the Sukuma people who represent the largest ethnic group in Tanzania. It is devoted mainly to the resources, use, problems and systems of tenure of...
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  • Valenge Women Valenge Women
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    Valenge Women

    When first published in 1933, this monograph shed new light on the life of the Valenge women of Portuguese East Africa. It discusses their social organisations, family relationships, education,...
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  • Adamawa Past and Present Adamawa Past and Present
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    Adamawa Past and Present

    Originally published in 1958 this book presents a straight-forward and vivid picture of Adamawa Province in Nigeria. It discusses the varying fortunes of the territory, the life of its people, the...
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  • Stanleyville Stanleyville
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    Stanleyville

    Originally published in 1969, this is a study of the Congolese community of Kinsangani (formerly Stanleyville), as it was in 1952-3 under Belgian administration. It pays particular attention to the...
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  • Survey of African Marriage and Family Life Survey of African Marriage and Family Life
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    Survey of African Marriage and Family Life

    Originally published in 1953, this study examines the effect of social change on African domestic organization and marriage. Changes to African social organization due to increased contact with the...
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  • The African Labourer The African Labourer
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    The African Labourer

    Originally published in 1933, this book is a comparative study of the labour market in the early part of the twentieth century in different parts of Africa. It focusses particularly on the impact of...
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  • A Tribal Survey of Mongalla Province A Tribal Survey of Mongalla Province
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    A Tribal Survey of Mongalla Province

    Originally published in 1937, this book describes and compares the tribes of the Mongalla Province in what is now South Sudan. In the second part of the book some 27 individual tribes are discussed...
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  • The Premise of Inequality in Ruanda The Premise of Inequality in Ruanda
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    The Premise of Inequality in Ruanda

    Originally published in 1961, this study of the indigenous system of government in Ruanda-Urundi until the beginning of the 20th century, describes the complex relationship between the Tutsi and the...
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  • Kikuyu Kikuyu
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    Kikuyu

    Originally published in 1956, the main emphasis of the book is on the complex age-set organization which constitutes the framework within which the life of every Kikuyu is regulated from infancy to...
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  • The Pastoral Fulbe Family in Gwandu The Pastoral Fulbe Family in Gwandu
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    The Pastoral Fulbe Family in Gwandu

    Originally published in 1958, this book discusses how marriage and Fulbe family life, the economy and the whole organization of society is centred on cattle; how the welfare of the herd and its...
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  • Tribe and Class in Monrovia Tribe and Class in Monrovia
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    Tribe and Class in Monrovia

    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...
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  • Changing Social Structure in Ghana Changing Social Structure in Ghana
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    Changing Social Structure in Ghana

    Originally published in 1975, this book presents the results of research into social change in Ghana. The book looks in detail at the problems of particular sub-groups and sectors in one single...
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  • A Muslim Response to Evil A Muslim Response to Evil
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    A Muslim Response to Evil

    While Christian approaches to the problem of evil have been much discussed, the issue of theodicy in Islam is relatively neglected. A Muslim Response to Evil explores new insights and viewpoints and...
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  • The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi
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    The Web of Kinship Among the Tallensi

    Originally published in 1949, this book takes the analysis of Tale social structure further. It shows how the patriarchal principle regulates domestic life and thus moulds individual development...
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  • The Horse in West African History The Horse in West African History
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    The Horse in West African History

    Originally published in 1980 and here re-issued with an updated preface, this book deals with the role of the horse in the societies of West Africa during the pre-colonial period. It traces the...
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  • Pastoralism in Tropical Africa Pastoralism in Tropical Africa
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    Pastoralism in Tropical Africa

    Originally published in 1975, the papers collected in this volume review African pastoralism in both West and East Africa, in relation to economy, ecology, social and community organisation, kinship,...
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  • The New Elites of Tropical Africa The New Elites of Tropical Africa
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    The New Elites of Tropical Africa

    Originally published in 1966, this book brings together papers dealing with the emergence and development of elites in sub-Saharan Africa among social categories ranging from farmers and women market...
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  • The Chiga of Western Uganda The Chiga of Western Uganda
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    The Chiga of Western Uganda

    Originally published in 1957, this is an account of the Chiga, a Bantu tribe of Western Uganda. The Chiga are an independent farming people who have no tribal organization, and unlike the...
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  • The Sonjo of Tanganyika The Sonjo of Tanganyika
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    The Sonjo of Tanganyika

    Originally published in 1963, this was the first monograph concerning an African people in which an irrigation-based society was studied in detail and its implications explored. The Sonjo, a...
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  • Efik Traders of Old Calabar Efik Traders of Old Calabar
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    Efik Traders of Old Calabar

    Originally published in 1956 this book contains extracts of the 18th century diary of an Efik chief and documents the activities of slave-traders, the rituals of the Egbo society and many details of...
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  • Yakö Studies Yakö Studies
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    Yakö Studies

    Originally published in 1964 this volume collects together 25 years' worth of journal articles from the UK and USA. It brings together detailed descriptions and analyses of various aspects of the...
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  • The Social Organisation of the Lo Wiili The Social Organisation of the Lo Wiili
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    The Social Organisation of the Lo Wiili

    Originally published in 1967 (second edition) presents an account of the life and social organisation of the Lo Wiili of the Haute Volta and Ghana. Chapters on the geographic and ethnographic...
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  • Studio Studies Studio Studies
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    Studio Studies

    Consider the vast array of things around you, from the building you are in, the lights illuminating the interior, the computational devices mediating your life, the music in the background, even the...
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  • The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi
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    The Dynamics of Clanship Among the Tallensi

    Originally published in 1945, this book analyses Tale social structure at the level of corporate group organization. Tale culture is discussed primarily as the content of social relations and not in...
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  • No Platform No Platform
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    No Platform

    This book is the first to outline the history of the tactic of 'no platforming' at British universities since the 1970s, looking at more than four decades of student protest against racist and...
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  • The Ovimbundu Under Two Sovereignties The Ovimbundu Under Two Sovereignties
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    The Ovimbundu Under Two Sovereignties

    Originally published in 1962, this study discusses the changes in the life of the Ovimbundu from the time of their caravan trade in slaves, rubber, and ivory down to the more recent period when the...
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  • The Realm of a Rain Queen The Realm of a Rain Queen
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    The Realm of a Rain Queen

    Originally published in 1943 this book discusses the life and culture of the Lovedu, a Bantu tribe in South Africa. As well as discussing the Rain-Queen, much of the book is devoted to the royal...
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  • An African Aristocracy An African Aristocracy
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    An African Aristocracy

    Originally published in 1947 and reprinted with a new preface in 1961, this book is based on field studies and gives an account of the social organization of the Swazi, wiith special reference to the...
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  • A Manual of Nuer Law A Manual of Nuer Law
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    A Manual of Nuer Law

    Originally published in 1954 this book was originally designed for administrators but has become a key title for anthropologists. It includes a summary account of the history and social organisation...
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  • Love and Marriage in Globalizing China Love and Marriage in Globalizing China
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    Love and Marriage in Globalizing China

    As China globalises the number of marriages between Chinese people and foreigners is increasing. These Chinese-foreign marriages have profound implications for China's cultural identity. This book,...
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  • Freedom and Authority in French West Africa Freedom and Authority in French West Africa
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    Freedom and Authority in French West Africa

    Originally published in 1950 and updated in 1968, this book discusses the functions and status of native chiefs in what were the French colonies in West Africa. It also examines the relation of the...
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  • China's Centralized Industrial Order China's Centralized Industrial Order
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    China's Centralized Industrial Order

    This book is about the political economy of China's industrial reform and the rise of a group of Chinese big businesses under the Communist Party and the central state's control. It examines the...
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  • Cognitive Processes in Animal Behavior Cognitive Processes in Animal Behavior
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    Cognitive Processes in Animal Behavior

    Originally published in 1978, this book is a collection of chapters based on the papers read at a conference in 1976 at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The title starts with an...
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  • Animal Nature and Human Nature Animal Nature and Human Nature
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    Animal Nature and Human Nature

    Our views on human nature are fundamental to the whole development, indeed the whole future, of human society. Originally published in 1974, Professor Thorpe believed that this was one of the most...
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  • Juries in the Japanese Legal System Juries in the Japanese Legal System
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    Juries in the Japanese Legal System

    This book discusses Japan's earlier experiments with jury trials, compares developing views in Japan on this issue with views in other countries where dissatisfaction with the jury system is often...
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