ABSTRACT
Excerpted from Yako Studies (London: International African Institute, 1964). C. Daryll Forde, Professor of Anthropology, University College, University of London, and Director of the International African Institute, has done ethnographic field research in the American Southwest and in eastern Nigeria. His publications reflect his special interest in ecology, economics, and pre-industrial social organization. His work on the Yako appears in a monograph, Marriage and the Family among the Yako, and his “Ethnography of the Yuma Indians” appeared in the University of California “Publications in Ethnology Series.” He is the editor of Africa and African Abstracts. The several figures and tables that appeared in the original version of this article have been omitted here.
