Cultures and societies of Africa / Simon Ed Ottenberg

Public ISBD Titre : Cultures and societies of Africa Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Simon Ed Ottenberg, Editeur scientifique ; Phoebe Vestal Ottenberg, Editeur scientifique ; Simon Ed Ottenberg, Auteur Editeur : New York - New York - États-Unis : Random House Année de publication : [1960] Importance : ix, 614 p. Présentation : planches, carte en coul. (intérieur des couvertures) Format : 24 cm Note générale : Bibliogr. en fin des chaps. Bibliogr. générale p. 565-598. Index Autres tirages : 1963, 1968 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Culture -- Afrique ; Ethnologie -- Afrique ; Société -- Afrique Index. décimale : 305.896 Résumé : This is a collection of some of the most important anthropological writings on Africa. It provides the background knowledge of traditional African cultures without which there can be no understanding of what is happening on the continent today -- [Source inconnue] Note de contenu : 1. INTRODUCTION / Simon & Phoebe Ottenberg -- 2. PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT: The Bushmen of South West Africa / L. Fourie -- The Bemba: their country and diet / Audrey L. Richards -- Rice, a Malaqasy tradition / Ralph Linton -- The cultural map for West Africa: successive adaptations to tropical forests and grasslands / Daryl Forde -- Transhumance, migratory dift, migration: patterns of pastoral Fulani nomadism / Derrick J. Stenning -- 3. SOCIAL GROUPINGS: The structure of unilineal descent groups / Meyere Fortes -- Jie marriage / P. H. Gulliver -- The role of the secret society in cultural specialization / K. L. Little Nandi age-sets / G. W. B. Huntingford -- Nyakyusa age-villages / Monica Wilson -- The pattern of residence among the Lele / Mary Douglas -- Urbanization among the Yoruba / William Bascom -- 4. AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT: The political system of Konkomba / David Tait -- Headmanship and the ritual of Luapula villages / Ian Cunnison -- The Ashanti constitution / Robert S. Rattray -- The problem of Tutsi domination / J. J. Maquet -- History of a changing society / J. A. Banes -- Extra-processual events in Tiv political institutions / Paul Bohannan -- 5. VALUES, RELIGION, AND AESTHETICS: An African morality / Godfrey Wilson -- The idea of person among the Dogon / Marcel Griaule -- Ancestral spirits among the plateau Tonga / Elizabth Colson -- The sacrificial role of cattle among the Nuer / E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- Witchcraft isn four African societies -- an essay in comparison / S. F. Nadel; Initiation among the Bambuti pygmies in the Central Ituri / Colin M. Turnbull -- Negro folklore / Melville J. Herksovits-- The study of African art / William Fagg -- 6. CULTURE CONTACT AND CHANGE: Some aspects of Negro-Mohammedan culture-contact among the Hausa / Joseph H. Greenberg -- Christianity and the Tswana / Ian Schapera -- The predicament of the modern African chief: an instance from Uganda / Lloyd Fallers -- Dynamics of urbanization in Africa / Daniel F. McCall -- The uniform of color in Swaziland / Hilda Kuper -- Life in a Johannesburg slum yard / Ellen Hellmann -- Bibliogaphy -- The contributors -- The editors -- Index Cultures and societies of Africa [texte imprimé] / Simon Ed Ottenberg, Editeur scientifique ; Phoebe Vestal Ottenberg, Editeur scientifique ; Simon Ed Ottenberg, Auteur . - New York - New York - États-Unis (New York - New York - États-Unis) : Random House, [1960] . - ix, 614 p. : planches, carte en coul. (intérieur des couvertures) ; 24 cm. Bibliogr. en fin des chaps. Bibliogr. générale p. 565-598. Index Autres tirages : 1963, 1968 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Culture -- Afrique ; Ethnologie -- Afrique ; Société -- Afrique Index. décimale : 305.896 Résumé : This is a collection of some of the most important anthropological writings on Africa. It provides the background knowledge of traditional African cultures without which there can be no understanding of what is happening on the continent today -- [Source inconnue] Note de contenu : 1. INTRODUCTION / Simon & Phoebe Ottenberg -- 2. PEOPLE AND ENVIRONMENT: The Bushmen of South West Africa / L. Fourie -- The Bemba: their country and diet / Audrey L. Richards -- Rice, a Malaqasy tradition / Ralph Linton -- The cultural map for West Africa: successive adaptations to tropical forests and grasslands / Daryl Forde -- Transhumance, migratory dift, migration: patterns of pastoral Fulani nomadism / Derrick J. Stenning -- 3. SOCIAL GROUPINGS: The structure of unilineal descent groups / Meyere Fortes -- Jie marriage / P. H. Gulliver -- The role of the secret society in cultural specialization / K. L. Little Nandi age-sets / G. W. B. Huntingford -- Nyakyusa age-villages / Monica Wilson -- The pattern of residence among the Lele / Mary Douglas -- Urbanization among the Yoruba / William Bascom -- 4. AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT: The political system of Konkomba / David Tait -- Headmanship and the ritual of Luapula villages / Ian Cunnison -- The Ashanti constitution / Robert S. Rattray -- The problem of Tutsi domination / J. J. Maquet -- History of a changing society / J. A. Banes -- Extra-processual events in Tiv political institutions / Paul Bohannan -- 5. VALUES, RELIGION, AND AESTHETICS: An African morality / Godfrey Wilson -- The idea of person among the Dogon / Marcel Griaule -- Ancestral spirits among the plateau Tonga / Elizabth Colson -- The sacrificial role of cattle among the Nuer / E. E. Evans-Pritchard -- Witchcraft isn four African societies -- an essay in comparison / S. F. Nadel; Initiation among the Bambuti pygmies in the Central Ituri / Colin M. Turnbull -- Negro folklore / Melville J. Herksovits-- The study of African art / William Fagg -- 6. CULTURE CONTACT AND CHANGE: Some aspects of Negro-Mohammedan culture-contact among the Hausa / Joseph H. Greenberg -- Christianity and the Tswana / Ian Schapera -- The predicament of the modern African chief: an instance from Uganda / Lloyd Fallers -- Dynamics of urbanization in Africa / Daniel F. McCall -- The uniform of color in Swaziland / Hilda Kuper -- Life in a Johannesburg slum yard / Ellen Hellmann -- Bibliogaphy -- The contributors -- The editors -- Index

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