Author: Southall, Aidan William; editor:
Title: Social Change in Modern Africa : Studies Presented and Discussed at First International African Seminar
Description: London, Oxford University Press, (1965). Reprint. orig.cloth, dustwrapper. 22x14cm, xi,337 pp. In a rubbed, stained and soiled dustwrapper. Some page-edge spotting.. Rubbed. Name inked on flyleaf. Some pencilled underlinings. Good ¶ Foreword by Daryll Forde. Contents: Introductory Summary: Social Change, Demography, and Extrinsic Factors; Norms and Status Symbols; Small Groups and Social Networks; Kinship, Tribalism, and Family Authority; The Position of Women and the Stability of Marriage; Special Studies: Anthropological Problems arising from the African Industrial Revolution; Social and Demographic Problems of the Southern Cameroons Plantation Area; Mombasa - A Modern Colonial Municipality; The Restructuring of Social Relationships; Social Stratification in Gwelo; Educated Africans: some Conceptual and Terminological Problems; An Expenditure Study of the Congolese "Évolués" of Leopoldville, Belgian Congo; Kinship, Friendship, and the Network of Relations in Kisenyi, Kampala; Labour Migration as a Positive Factor in the Continuity of Tonga Tribal Society; Kahama Township,Western Protern Province, Tanganyika; Parenté et Affinités ethniques dans l'écologie du "Grand Quartier" de New-Bell, Doula; Changes in the Composition and Status of Kin Groups in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia; Trade and the Role of Wife in a Modern West African Town; Second Generation Migrants in Ghana and the Ivory Coast; Family Life Among the Yoruba, in Langos, Nigeria; Social Change and the Stability of African Marriage on Northern Rhodesia.

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