Peoples of Central Cameroons Tikar. Bamum Bamileke. Banen, Bafia - Western Africa Part IX

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.

Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the Ethnographic Survey contains sections as follows:

Physical Environment

Linguistic Data

Demography

History & Traditions of Origin

Nomenclature

Grouping

Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial

Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice

Economy & Trade

Domestic Architecture

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.

The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.

List of contents

1.The Tikar of the British and French Cameroons 2. The Bamum of the French Cameroons 3. The Bamileke of the French Cameroons 4. The Banen, Bafia and Balom of the French Cameroons.

About the author

Merran Mcculloch, Margaret Littlewood, I. Dugast

Summary

Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.

Product details

• Authors: I. Dugast, Dugast I., Margaret Littlewood, Littlewood Margaret, Merran Mcculloch, Merran Littlewood Mcculloch
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9781138239524
• ISBN: 978-1-138-23952-4
• No. of pages: 170
• Series: Ethnographic Survey of Africa
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Indigenous Peoples, Social and cultural anthropology, Cameroon, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies, Indigenous peoples / Indigeneity