Man in Africa - Douglas, Mary 1921-; Kaberry, Phyllis Mary 1910- (Garden City, New York Doubleday, 1971)
Foreword, by M.G. Smith.--the cultural units of Africa: a classificatory problem / by J. Maquet.--Patrimonialism and gerontocracy in Benin political culture / by R.E. Bradbury.--From fishing village to city-state: a social history of New Calabar /by R. Horton.--From nomadism to cultivation: the expansion of political solidarity in southern Somalia, by I.M. Lewis.--The influence of habitat and trade on the polities of Oyo and Ashanti / by P. Morton-Williams.--The politics of law / by J.A. Barnes.--Is mat iliny doomed in Africa? / By M. Douglas.--Unilineal fact or fiction: a further contribution / by R. Harris.--Differentiation and the segmentary principle in two societies / by M.G. Smith.--Witchcaft of the sun: Incest in Nso / by P.M. Kaberry.-- Femininity in Yoruba religious art / by C. Odugbesan.--Friends and twins in Bangwa / by R. Brain.--Symbolization and patterning in the circumcision rites of two Bantu-speaking societies / by V.W. Turner. The Bushong poison ordeal / by J. Vansina.--Oracles and divination among the Lugbara / by J. Middleton.--The cult of the Borl spirits among the Hausa/ by M. Onwuejeogwu.--Death, dreams, and the ancestors in Marabila culture/ by F. Rehfisch.--The riddle of the sphinx-monkey/ by C.J. Jolly and P.J. Ucko.--Africa's contribution to palaeopathology: from the past to the future / by D.R. Brothwell.--Bibliography of Professor Daryll Forde, compiled by K. Attwood (p. 349-353).
Essays dedicated to Daryll Forde.
Includes bibliographical references.
Keywords: Ethnology -- Africa