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 Environment
Linguistic Data
Demography
History & Traditions of Origin
Nomenclature
Grouping
Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial
Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice
Economy & Trade
Domestic Architecture
Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo.
The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
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 <i>Ethnographic Survey </i>contains sections as follows:
<ul><li>
</li><li>Physical Environment</li><li>
</li><li>Linguistic Data</li><li>
</li><li>Demography</li><li>
</li><li>History & Traditions of Origin</li><li>
</li><li>Nomenclature</li><li>
</li><li>Grouping</li><li>
</li><li>Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial</li><li>
</li><li>Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice</li><li>
</li><li>Economy & Trade</li><li>
</li><li>Domestic Architecture</li></ul>
Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo.
The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.
