Social Change in Modern Africa
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Social Change in Modern Africa

Studies Presented and Discussed at the First International African Seminar, Makerere College, Kampala, January 1959

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Social Change in Modern Africa

Studies Presented and Discussed at the First International African Seminar, Makerere College, Kampala, January 1959

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Originally published in 1961, this book analyses economic changes in Africa and the restructuring of social relations to which this hs led. there are also detailed studies of the character of social changes in individual communities. There is a particular focus on changing kinship status and neighbourhood as the impact of modern economic conditions is felt in Tropical Africa.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2018
ISBN
9780429942983
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

INDEX

Abidjan, 11
Absenteeism, 43
Accra, 23, 41, 47, 296
Acholi, 40, 222
Administration, 101, 225–6, 240, 251–2
Adultery, 65, 94, 326
Aga Khan, H.H., 101
Aged, and migration, 42
Agriculture, 2, 4, 6, 7, 128, 230, 275, 280, 286, 288, 290, 291, 296, 297, 298, 300, 320–1
Akan, 41, 286–7, 290, 292
Arabs, 226; in Kahama, 244, 246, 247; in Mombasa, 99–102; passim, 110
Asantehene, 288, 289
Ashanti, 2, 56, 287, 288, 290, 301
Asians, in Mombasa, 99–101
Associations, 36, 37, 68, 78, 111, 116-20; appointment of officers in, 119-20; behaviour in, 119–20; credit (ikelemba), 168–9; in Gwelo, 136; in Kahama, 251; Luo Welfare, 111; migrant in Ghana and Ivory Coast, 303–4; Ratepayers, 40; tribal, 38–9; see also Clubs, social; Unions
Authority: of elders, 71, 72, 73; of family, 41, 42, 43, 45; of headmen, 276, 280; Native, 240, 279
Babuku, 301
Bakweri, 52, 64–5, 84–96
Balandier, G., 153
Balong, 92
Baltzell, —, 155
Baluyia, 102
Bamileke, 34, 264
Banana production, 85
Baoule, 49, 302
Barnes, John, 317, 326
Barotse, see Lozi
Bassa, 118
Bauer, Peter, 290
Beer: bars, 28, 136, 140, 227–8, 249-50; brewing by women, 59, 56, 57, 281; sale and sellers of, 213, 2...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Foreword by Professor Daryll Forde
  7. I Social Change, Demography, and Extrinsic Factors
  8. II Norms and Status Symbols
  9. III Small Groups and Social Networks
  10. IV Kinship, Tribalism, and Family Authority
  11. V The Position of Women and the Stability of Marriage
  12. I Anthropological Problems arising from the African Industrial Revolution
  13. II Social and Demographic Problems of the Southern Cameroons Plantation Area
  14. III Mombasa—A Modern Colonial Municipality
  15. IV The Restructuring of Social Relationships
  16. V Social Stratification in Gwelo
  17. VI Educated Africans: some Conceptual and Terminological Problems
  18. VII An Expenditure Study of the Congolese ÉvoluĂ©s of Leopoldville, Belgian Congo
  19. VIII Mieux-Être et Promotion sociale chez les SalariĂ©s africains de Brazzaville
  20. IX Two Small Groups in Avenue 21: Some Aspects of the System of Social Relations in a Remote Corner of Stanleyville, Belgian Congo
  21. X Kinship, Friendship, and the Network of Relations in Kisenyi, Kampala
  22. XI Labour Migration as a Positive Factor in the Continuity of Tonga Tribal Society
  23. XII Kahama Township, Western Province, Tanganyika
  24. XIII ParentĂ© et AffinitĂ©s ethniques dans l’écologie du ‘Grand Quartier’ de New-Bell, Douala
  25. XIV Changes in the Composition and Status of Kin Groups in Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia
  26. XV Trade and the Role of Wife in a Modern West African Town
  27. XVI Second Generation Migrants in Ghana and the Ivory Coast
  28. XVII Family Life Among the Yoruba, in Lagos, Nigeria
  29. XVIII Social Change and the Stability of African Marriage in Northern Rhodesia
  30. Index