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By R. E. Bradbury

ISBN-10: 113824015X

ISBN-13: 9781138240155

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark sequence in organization with the overseas African Institute. The sequence, released among 1950 and 1977, brings jointly a wealth of formerly un-co-ordinated fabric at the ethnic groupings and social stipulations of African peoples.


Concise, severe and (for its time) exact, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows:




  • Physical Environment



  • Linguistic Data



  • Demography



  • History & Traditions of Origin



  • Nomenclature



  • Grouping



  • Cultural beneficial properties: faith, Witchcraft, beginning, Initiation, Burial



  • Social & Political association: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, struggle & Justice



  • Economy & Trade



  • Domestic Architecture


Each of the 50 volumes may be in the stores separately, and those are geared up into local sub-groups: East crucial Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West critical Africa, Western Africa, and relevant Africa Belgian Congo.


The volumes are supplemented with maps, on hand to view on routledge.com or to be had as a pdf from the publishers.

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