Man in Africa

ISBN-13: 9780415263948 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 372 str.

Mary Douglas; Phyllis Mary Kaberry

Opis

Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1969 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

Spis treści

I: General; The Cultural Units of Africa; II: Political Economy; Patrimonialism and Gerontocracy in Benin Political Culture; From Fishing Village to City-state; From Nomadism to Cultivation; The Influence of Habitat and Trade on the Polities of Oyo and Ashanti; The Politics of Law; III: Problems in Kinship; Is Matriliny Doomed in Africa?; Unilineal Fact or Fiction; Differentiation and the Segmentary Principle in Two Societies; Witchcraft of the Sun; IV: Expression of Values; Femininity in Yoruba Religious Art; Friends and Twins in Bangwa; Symbolization and Patterning in the Circumcision Rites of two Bantu-speaking Societies; The Bushong Poison Ordeal; Oracles and Divination among the Lugbara; The Cult of the Bori Spirits among the Hausa; Death, Dreams, and the Ancestors in Mambila Culture; V: Enigmas of the Past; The Riddle of the Sphinx-monkey; Africa's Contribution to Paleopathology

O autorze

Mary Douglas, Phyllis M. Kaberry