ABSTRACT

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.

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.

 

chapter |7 pages

Introduction to the Second Edition

chapter |1 pages

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

chapter |2 pages

Preface to the First Edition

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter |5 pages

Territorial Grouping and Nomenclature

chapter |4 pages

Demography

chapter |3 pages

Language

chapter |5 pages

Physical Environment

chapter |6 pages

Archaeology

chapter |11 pages

History

chapter |26 pages

Main Features of Economy

chapter |17 pages

Social Structure

chapter |12 pages

Political Organization and Law

chapter |12 pages

Other Cultural Features

chapter |23 pages

Bibliography

chapter |3 pages

SUPPLEMENTARY BIBLIOGRAPHY