Focussing on the problems of change and resistance to change that mark the African sub-continent, this book examines Africa's place in the world from earliest times. It considers the nature of its peoples in their prehistoric development, the ways in which their cultures were oriented, and the ways in which these cultures guided their reactions to European ideas. It also assesses the human responses to industrial, technological and economic changes and the re-discovery by the Africans of African culture. Originally published in 1962.

Focussing on the problems of change and resistance to change that mark the African sub-continent, this book examines Africa's place in the world from earliest times. It considers the nature of its peoples in their prehistoric development, the ways in which their cultures were oriented, and the ways in which these cultures guided their reactions to European ideas. It also assesses the human responses to industrial, technological and economic changes and the re-discovery by the Africans of African culture. Originally published in 1962.

This is a new release of the original 1962 edition.

Additional Contributing Authors Include Esther S. Goldfrank, Aurelio M. Espinosa, Calvin Claudel And Many Others.

Additional Contributing Authors Include Esther S. Goldfrank, Aurelio M. Espinosa, Calvin Claudel And Many Others.

Additional Authors Include Alfred Metraux, Mark Graubard, Edward O. Tabor And Others.

Supplement To American Anthropologist, V37, No. 2, Part 2. Additional Editors Are Cornelius Osgood, F. H. H. Roberts And Frank Speck.

Supplement To American Anthropologist, V37, No. 2, Part 2. Additional Editors Are Cornelius Osgood, F. H. H. Roberts And Frank Speck.

Additional Editors Are Donald Collier, C. W. M. Hart, W. C. McKern And Sol Tax. Memoir No. 72.

This book is a precious document in the intellectual history of the black Americas. Its author was surely the first academically respectable white scholar to take seriously the cultural achievements of Afro-Americans, throughout the hemisphere. His influence is still keenly felt, within and beyond his discipline.

Additional Editors Are F. H. H. Roberts, Jr. And Melville Jacobs. Supplement No. 55 To American Anthropologist, V42, No. 4, Part 2.

Additional Editors Are Cornelius Osgood, F. H. H. Roberts, Jr., And Frank G. Speck.

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This new edition, published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding by Melville Herskovits of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, brings back into print one of the classics in scholarly analysis and translation, written by one of the cultural anthropology. When this book was first published in 1958, Melville luminaries of American Herskovits, with his wife and collaborator, Frances, had spent over Twenty years studying the social networks, language, and oral traditions of the peoples of West Africa and their descendants in the New World. Dahomey, the major site of their African work, is in the country now known as the Republic of Benin.

This volume, had two goals: in its collection of 155 narratives, to provide basic texts of the analytical side, to provide a general theory of mythology using new oral narratives and looking at their tradition culminating in a survey of different prevailing Theories of myth. The result is a wide-ranging collection, culled from an entire narrative tradition, that remains unique among anthropological publications.