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First Published in 1969. Building upon the author's previous work,
Survey of African Marriage and Family Life, this title's findings
are intended to produce for policy-makers a picture of the forces
producing changes in family relationships and the instability of
marriage to which legislators, civil or religious, could refer when
deciding what practices to treat as permissible and what to forbid.
For this reason it has laid more emphasis than is usual in works of
theoretical anthropology on specific aspects of African marriage
where it has been assumed that the divergence was most marked.
The fourteen lectures and essays that make up this volume deal
mainly, though not exclusively, with Africa, and among the topics
discussed are land tenure, chieftainship, 'clientship', messianic
movement, witchcraft, and 'race, tribalism and nationalism'.
The fourteen lectures and essays that make up this volume deal
mainly, though not exclusively, with Africa, and among the topics
discussed are land tenure, chieftainship, 'clientship', messianic
movement, witchcraft, and 'race, tribalism and nationalism'.
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