First Published in 1969. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Focusing mainly on Africa, collected essays on land tenure, chieftainship, clientship, race, tribalism and nationalism.

In African Societies, Lucy Mair unites the two main strands of anthropology teaching: the discussion and illustration of the various analytical concepts used by anthropologists in the study of social systems; and ethnography the detailed study of particular societies, nowadays obtained by participant observation. All societies discussed are in sub-Saharan Africa. This 1977 book will be of great use to students of social anthropology studying ethnography. Presenting as it does brief ethnographic accounts of a wide variety of African societies, as well as exemplifications and discussions of...