ABSTRACT
Originally published by the University of California Press; reprinted by permission of The Regents of the University of California. From Sebei Law by Walter Goldschmidt, pp. 245-260. Walter Goldschmidt is Professor in the Department of Anthropology of the University of California at Los Angeles and is the holder of a Senior Scientist Award from the National Institutes of Mental Health. In addition to his work on Africa, a portion of which is reported here, he has engaged in research on California Indians and on the modern American community. He was editor of the American Anthropologist from 1956 through 1969. He is the author of Man’s Way and Comparative Functionalism, both theoretical treatises, and of a number of other works, including Sebei Law, from which this exerpt is taken, and Kambuya’s Cattle: The Legacy of an African Herdsman, which also deals with the Sebei.
