ABSTRACT
From Peoples of Africa, edited by James L. Gibbs, Jr. Copyright © 1965 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. P. H. Gulliver is Professor of African Anthropology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His major research interests have been in sociology and social anthropology, with special reference to East and Central Africa. He is the author of The Family Herds, Labour Migration in a Rural Economy, Land Tenure and Social Change among the Nyakyusa, and Social Control in an African Society.
