Author: Vansina, Jan
Title: The Tio Kingdom of the Middle Congo, 1880-1892
Description: London, Oxford University Press, 1973. orig. cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, xviii,586 pp. Dustwrapper stained & heavily rubbed.. Minor rubbing. Some light top-page-edge staining. Good. ¶ Contents: Thre Little Society: Kinship; Residential Groups;: Marriage; The Economics of Subsistence: Production; Domestic Life; Fortune & Misfortune; The Flow of Life; The Inner World; The Wider Society: The Great Congo Trade; The Commercial Economy; The Protectors: Lords & Squires; The Resolution of Conflict; The King & his Realm; The Kingdom Under Iloo; A Perspective Through Time: Tio Society to 1880; Social Change Among the Tio of Mbe (1880-1964); Conclusion; Appendices.

Keywords: African Colonial History, Congo, Brazzaville, Central Africa, Ethnology, Political History, Tio Ethnohistory, Colonialism, Anthropology, Social Sociology