Ethnographic Survey of Africa
Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series originally published between 1950 and 1977 collected information on the peoples of Africa using all available sources: archives memoirs and reports as well as ethnographic research which in 1945 had only just begun. Each volume in the Ethnographic Survey of Africa 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 in print or ebook formats 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 which will be available to view on https://www. routledge. com/ or available as pdfs from the publishers.
