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 ethnographic
information on the peoples of Africa, using all available sources:
archives, memoirs and reports as well as anthropological research
which, in 1945, had only just begun. 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.
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