Man in Africa

<p><strong>Tavistock Press</strong> was established as a co-operative venture between the <strong>Tavistock Institute</strong> and <strong>Routledge & Kegan Paul</strong> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <br> This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by <strong>Routledge,</strong> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <em>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press</em>.<br> Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1969 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.</p> I: General; The Cultural Units of Africa; II: Political Economy; Patrimonialism and Gerontocracy in Benin Political Culture; From Fishing Village to City-state; From Nomadism to Cultivation; The Influence of Habitat and Trade on the Polities of Oyo and Ashanti; The Politics of Law; III: Problems in Kinship; Is Matriliny Doomed in Africa?; Unilineal Fact or Fiction; Differentiation and the Segmentary Principle in Two Societies; Witchcraft of the Sun; IV: Expression of Values; Femininity in Yoruba Religious Art; Friends and Twins in Bangwa; Symbolization and Patterning in the Circumcision Rites of two Bantu-speaking Societies; The Bushong Poison Ordeal; Oracles and Divination among the Lugbara; The Cult of the Bori Spirits among the Hausa; Death, Dreams, and the Ancestors in Mambila Culture; V: Enigmas of the Past; The Riddle of the Sphinx-monkey; Africa's Contribution to Paleopathology