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For Men and Elders by Monica Wilson
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £32.04Originally published in 1977, this volume completes with a wealth of case material and against the background of a whole century, Monica Wilson's detailed study of the Nyakyusa-Ngonde people of... -
Communal Rituals of the Nyakyusa by Monica Wilson 9781138600348
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Originally published in 1959, this book includes detailed accounts of Nyakyusa traditions of origin, osmology and moral values, often in direct quotations from informants, while part of the book is... -
Rituals of Kinship Among the Nyakyusa by Monica Wilson 9781138600362
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Originally published in 1957, analyses the rituals celebrated by groups of kinsmen on the occasion of births, marriages and deaths within the age villages of the Nyakyusa. the connection between the... -
A History of South Africa to 1870 by Monica Wilson 9781032316376
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £31.49Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Good Company: A Study of Nyakyusa Age-Villages by Monica Wilson 9781138600324
RRP: £36.99Booksplease Price: £33.73Originally published in 1951 this book is a study of village system in southern Tanzania, which at the time of publication was thought to be unique. Each village consisted not of a group of kinsmen... -
Religion and the Transformation of Society: A Study in Social Change in Africa by Monica Wilson 9780521104111
RRP: £41.00Booksplease Price: £40.09When previously isolated societies come into contact with the outside world they undergo certain obvious changes. Professor Wilson has long been interested in these changes, particularly as they... -
Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters by Andrew Bank 9781108453172
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £37.74Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual... -
Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters by Andrew Bank 9781107029385
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £53.68Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual... -
The Interpretation of Ritual by J. S. La Fontaine
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £44.37First published in 1972. A revival of interest in primitive religion has been one of the most marked characteristics of British social anthropology of recent years. Inspired by the work of Audrey... -
African Systems of Kinship and Marriage by A. R. Radcliffe-Brown
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £42.24First published in 1950 and this edition in 1987, this book is one of the most wide-ranging and respected surveys on kinship and marriage in African social life. In his introduction, Radcliff-Brown... -
The Analysis of Social Change: Based on Observations in Central Africa by Godfrey Wilson 9780521095549
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21Monica Wilson and the late Godfrey Wilson wrote this book as a result of field work in Tanzania, Malawi and Zambia, where they were able to observe the impact of European civilization upon... -
The Realm of a Rain Queen: A Study of the Pattern of Lovedu Society E. Jensen Krige 9781138589780
RRP: £35.99Booksplease Price: £32.89Originally published in 1943 this book discusses the life and culture of the Lovedu, a Bantu tribe in South Africa. As well as discussing the Rain-Queen, much of the book is devoted to the royal... -
Pioneers of the Field: South Africa's Women Anthropologists by Andrew Bank 9781316604915
RRP: £36.00Booksplease Price: £35.67Focusing on the crucial contributions of women researchers, Andrew Bank demonstrates that the modern school of social anthropology in South Africa was uniquely female-dominated. The book traces the...