Coastal Bantu of the Cameroons

<p>Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series originally published between 1950 and 1977 collected ethnographic information on the peoples of Africa using all available sources: archives memoirs and reports as well as anthropological research which in 1945 had only just begun. </p><p>Concise critical and (for its time) accurate the <i>Ethnographic Survey </i>contains sections as follows: </p><ul> <p> </p> <li>Physical Environment</li> <p> </p> <li>Linguistic Data</li> <p> </p> <li>Demography</li> <p> </p> <li>History & Traditions of Origin</li> <p> </p> <li>Nomenclature</li> <p> </p> <li>Grouping</li> <p> </p> <li>Cultural Features: Religion Witchcraft Birth Initiation Burial</li> <p> </p> <li>Social & Political Organization: Kinship Marriage Inheritance Slavery Land Tenure Warfare & Justice</li> <p> </p> <li>Economy & Trade</li> <p> </p> <li>Domestic Architecture</li> </ul><p>Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa North-Eastern Africa Southern Africa West Central Africa Western Africa and Central Africa Belgian Congo. </p><p>The volumes are supplemented with maps available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers. </p>