ABSTRACT

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1969 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

part I|13 pages

General

chapter |11 pages

The Cultural Units of Africa

A Classificatory Problem

part II|104 pages

Political Economy

chapter |22 pages

From Fishing Village to City-state

A Social History of New Calabar

chapter |19 pages

From Nomadism to Cultivation

The Expansion of Political Solidarity in Southern Somalia

chapter |20 pages

The Politics of Law

part III|77 pages

Problems in Kinship

chapter |15 pages

Is Matriliny Doomed in Africa?

chapter |14 pages

Unilineal Fact or Fiction

A Further Contribution

chapter |21 pages

Witchcraft of the Sun

Incest in Nso

part V|32 pages

Enigmas of the Past

chapter |12 pages

Africa's Contribution to Paleopathology

From the Past to the Future