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  • Social Control in an African Society

    by P. H. Gulliver ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This is Volume XV of eighteen in a series on the Sociology of Development. Originally published in 1963, this is a study of the Arusha people, the Agricultural Masai of Northern Tanganyika in Africa. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Family Herds

    A Study of Two Pastoral Tribes in East Africa, The Jie and T

    by P.H. Gulliver ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    This is Volume VI of fifteen in a series on the Sociology of Gender and the Family. Originally published in 1955, this is a study of two pastoral tribes in East Africa, The Jie and the Turkana. ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Central Nilo-Hamites

    East Central Africa Part VII

    by Pamela Gulliver, P. H. Gulliver ...
    Series Book 7 - Ethnographic Survey of Africa
    Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, originally published between 1950 and 1977, collected ethnographic information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports as well as anthropological research which, in 1945, had only just begun.Concise, critical and (for its time) ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Tradition and Transition in East Africa

    Studies of the Tribal Factor in the Modern Era

    Edited by P.H. Gulliver ...
    First published in 1969. Divided into two parts, the first sections in the book examine the significance of the tribal factor in certain general contexts and discuss some of the particular backgrounds to contemporary transition in East Africa. There are essays on politics, economic development, language, law and education, together with a comparative look at European nationalism. In the second ... Read more

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  • The Family Estate in Africa

    Studies in the Role of Property in Family Structure and Lineage Continuity

    Edited by Robert F. Gray, P.H. Gulliver ...
    Too often accounts of African family life have tended to describe the family in purely static terms. The contributors to this book emphasize the developmental or time dimension of the family, analysing it as a process. In the seven different societies described in East Africa, the Congo and the Transvaal the changing nature of the distribution of rights in the family property and resources is ... Read more

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    by Meyer Fortes ...
    One object we had in initiating this study was to provide a convenient reference book for anthropologists. We also hope that it will be a contribution to the discipline of comparative politics. We feel sure that the first object has been attained, for the societies described are representative of common types of African political systems and, taken together, they enable a student to appreciate the ... Read more

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  • The Tiv of Central Nigeria

    Western Africa Part VIII

    by Laura Bohannan, Paul Bohannan ...
    Series Book 8 - Ethnographic Survey of Africa
    Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows:Physical ... Read more

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  • Man in Africa

    Edited by Mary Douglas, Phyllis M. Kaberry ...
    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 total are ... Read more

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  • Rice, Rupees, and Ritual

    Economy and Society Among the Samosir Batak of Sumatra

    by D. George Sherman ...
    In this ethnographic study of the small mountain village of Huta Ginjang in the Samosir area of northern Sumatra, the author pursues three main themes: the role of rice in the Batak economy of feasting, and the cultural ecology of dry- and flooded-field rice-growing. Two important questions emerge: How did the social and economic changes resulting from Dutch colonization - particularly the ... Read more

    $85.99 USD

  • Mende Of Sierra Leone Ils 65

    by Kenneth Little ...
    Series series International Library of Sociology
    The social, political and economic impact of the decline of the old colonial powers in Africa, India and the Middle East are still key areas of scholarly research and debate. Based on careful social observation and empirical research, these titles explore the tension between agriculture and industry in developing economies, and trace the complex political process of independence. Aimed at ... Read more

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  • Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society

    by Max Gluckman ...
    What can we learn from tribal societies about the ways in which, in a variety of social settings, groups of men resolve their conflicts with other men? In order to answer this question, Politics, Law and Ritual in Tribal Society compares nearly forty case study societies, most of them in Africa, in their reconstructed pre-colonial tribal condition, comparing their small-scale social relations to ... Read more

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  • Order and Dispute: An Introduction to Legal Anthropology

    by Simon Roberts ...
    Classic resource in the modern study of legal anthropology, this acclaimed book is now available in an updated, expanded Second Edition. There are many societies that survive in a remarkably orderly fashion without the aid of judges, courts and police. Roberts contends that legal theory has become too closely identified with our own arrangements to be of use in understanding other legal systems. ... Read more

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