Continuity and change in African cultures / edited by William R. Bascom and Melville J. Herskovits.

Contributor(s): Bascom, William Russell, 1912- | Herskovits, Melville J. (Melville Jean), 1895-1963 | United States. National Research Council
Language: English Publisher: [Chicago] : University of Chicago Press, [1959].Description: vii, 309p. : ill., diagrs., maps, tables ; 24cm.
Contents:
1, The problem of stability and change in African culture, by M. J. Herskovits and W. R. Bascom. - 2, Africa as a linguistic area, by J. H. Greenberg. - 3, African art, by J. M. Cordwell. - 4, African music, by A. P. Merriam. - 5, The factor of polygyny in African demography, by V. R. Dorjahn. - 6, Ethnohistory in the study of culture change in southeast Africa, by C. E. Fuller. - 7, Ibo receptivity to change, by S. Ottenberg. - 8, Pakot resistance to change, by H. K. Schneider. - 9, The dynamics of the Ngombe segmentary system, by A. W. Wolfe. - 10, Marriage and kinship among the Ashanti and the Agni, by R. A. Lysted. - 11, The changing economic position of women among the Afikpo Ibo, by P. V. Otenberg. - 12, Wolof co-operative work groups, by D. W. Ames. - 13, Economic change and Mossi acculturation, by P. B. Hammond. - 14, The adaptive functions of Fanti priesthood, by J. B. Christensen. - 15, Religious acculturation among the Anang Ibibio, by J. C. Messenger,jr.
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Includes the papers delivered at "an interdisciplinary conference on Africa, sponsored jointly by the National Research Council and the Social Science Research Council, which met at Princeton University in September, 1953.".

1, The problem of stability and change in African culture, by M. J. Herskovits and W. R. Bascom. - 2, Africa as a linguistic area, by J. H. Greenberg. - 3, African art, by J. M. Cordwell. - 4, African music, by A. P. Merriam. - 5, The factor of polygyny in African demography, by V. R. Dorjahn. - 6, Ethnohistory in the study of culture change in southeast Africa, by C. E. Fuller. - 7, Ibo receptivity to change, by S. Ottenberg. - 8, Pakot resistance to change, by H. K. Schneider. - 9, The dynamics of the Ngombe segmentary system, by A. W. Wolfe. - 10, Marriage and kinship among the Ashanti and the Agni, by R. A. Lysted. - 11, The changing economic position of women among the Afikpo Ibo, by P. V. Otenberg. - 12, Wolof co-operative work groups, by D. W. Ames. - 13, Economic change and Mossi acculturation, by P. B. Hammond. - 14, The adaptive functions of Fanti priesthood, by J. B. Christensen. - 15, Religious acculturation among the Anang Ibibio, by J. C. Messenger,jr.

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