Anthropology and Africa—A Wider Perspective
- 1 July 1959
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Africa
- Vol. 29 (3) , 225-238
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1157613
Abstract
Opening Paragraph: Anthropological research in Africa has been characterized by an intensive, microethnographic approach, which has stressed the understanding of institutional arrangements and their functioning within a given society; and, exceptionally, the analysis of custom in depth. Comparisons have been eschewed, while the broader distributional studies that played an important role in the earlier researches of anthropologists in North America and Polynesia, in Africa have been all but lacking in the scientific literature. The result has typically been the ethnographic monograph rather than the ethnological or ethnohistorical study.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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