Peoples of Africa, abridged - Softcover

Gibbs, James L

Softcover

ISBN 10: 003039371X ISBN 13: 9780030393716

Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978

Synopsis

This expansive anthology provides profiles of the peoples who live in Africa south of the Sahara Desert. Meaningful analyses of fifteen representative tribal groups are offered based on five important criteria: major forms of subsistence, different population sizes and patterns of social and political organization, culture areas and ecological zones, racial stocks, and language families.

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Consider these titles of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Bascom, The Yoruba of Southwestern Nigeria (ISBN 0881330388); Bohannan, Justice and Judgment among the Tiv (ISBN 0881334596); Bohannan-Curtin, Africa and Africans, Fourth Edition (ISBN 0881338400); Curtin, Africa Remembered: Narratives by West Africans from the Era of the Slave Trade (ISBN 0881339482); Duffy, Children of the Forest: Africa's Mbuti Pygmies (ISBN 0881338850); Hammond-Jablow, The Africa That Never Was: Four Centuries of British Writing about Africa (ISBN 0881336904); July, A History of the African People, Fifth Edition (ISBN 0881339806); Lawson, Religions of Africa: Traditions in Transformation (ISBN 1577660129); and Parkin, Palms, Wine and Witnesses: Public Spirit and Private Gain in an African Farming Community (ISBN 0881338028).

About this edition

• Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 003039371X
• ISBN 13: 9780030393716
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 355