Time and social structure: an Ashanti case study -- The significance of descent in Tale social structure -- The structure of unilineal descent groups -- Descent, filiation and ...

Continuing a policy of devoting a whole issue to a single topic, the third volume of the series Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology deals with aspects of marriage in tribal ...

Studies presented and discussed at the Third International African Seminar in Salisbury, December 1960.

Meyer Fortes (1906-1982) was one of the foremost anthropologists of this century, who for many years worked among the Tallensi of northern Ghana. Although he published ...