The Ila-Tongan Peoples of North - Western Rhodesia (1953)

The Ila-Tongan Peoples of  North - Western Rhodesia , International African Institute, Ethnographic Survey of Africa, West Central Africa, Part IV, 1953, with fold-out map, 72 pages, original, 16.5 cms x 24.5 cms, ex central reference library copy (never lent out), usual library stamps & labels, front cover is cockled with closed tear, internally very good, overall condition: good.

This 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