Ethnographic Survey of Africa
Format:Set / collection
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:19th Jan '17
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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 information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources: archives, memoirs and reports as well as ethnographic research which, in 1945, had only just begun.
Each volume in the Ethnographic Survey of Africa 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, in print or ebook formats 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, which will be available to view on https://www.routledge.com/ or available as pdfs from the publishers.
'For those about to embark on fieldwork it still provides a spring board for more theoretical research and for those engaged in wider analysis with suggestions of where the most useful material for comparison might be found.' Jean La Fontaine, London School of Economics
‘Written by experts, many volumes in the Ethnographic Survey of Africa have become classics. Generations of scholars and students have relied on them for an introduction to the ethnography of a particular African region. Taken together, because they all have the same structure and coverage, they remain an unsurpassed resource for comparative studies of traditional African societies.' Adam Kuper, London School of Economics
Written by knowledgeable anthropologists for administrators, missionaries, development planners or scholars most of these volumes were soon much used and in great demand. Today most of these volumes have become secure points of entry into the study of the same populations as they are now half a century later. The surveys allow the user to precisely evaluate continuities and changes and thereby tell an internal history of the populations involved. Once again the surveys promise to be invaluable to all those who are concerned with them whether they be historians, anthropologists, geographers or specialists and planners of all kinds such as demographers or environmentalists.’ Jan Vansina, University of Wisconsin-Madison
ISBN: 9781138232174
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6036 pages