OTHER BOOKS RECEIVED
| Date | 01 January 1959 |
| Published date | 01 January 1959 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1959.tb01200.x |
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A
LINGUISTIC
BIBLIOGRAPHY
OF
EAST
AFRICA,
compiled
by
W.
H.
Whitely
and
A.
Eo
Gutkind.
East African Institute rif
Social
Research,
revised
edition,
1958;
lOS.
This
useful bibliography has been
prepared
principally for those wishing to learn local
languages
during
the
course of
their
work
and
who
may
not be
aware
of
what
has
previously been
written
or
where
grammars
and
lexicons
are
available.
The
book has
aloose-leafformat so
that
supplementary
material, which it is
hoped
to issue every two
years,
may
be easily inserted.
SCHISM
AND
CONTINUITY
IN AN
AFRICAN
SOCIETY,
by
V. W.
Turner.
Manchester
University
Press:
1957;
35s;
pp.
xxiii
and
347.
This
is a
detailed
sociological
study
of the
Ndemba
tribe of
Northern
Rhodesia, an
offshoot of Mwantiyamvwa's Kingdom.
Much
of
it is concerned with analyses of king-
ship
and
social
structure,
mainly
of interest to students of anthropology;
but
it includes
historical
and
political information of interest to administrators
and
analyses disputes
within
and
between villages, describing how these arise,
are
influenced by
the
society
and
resolved.
The
book is the result of over two years field work
and
is well illustrated
and
indexed.
I1ISTORICAL
NOTES
ON
THE
EISA
TRIIlE,
NORTHERN
RHODESIA,
by
F.
M.
Thomas;
CASH
WAGES
AND
OCCUPATIONAL
STRUCTURE,
BLANTYRE-LIMBE,
NYASALAND,
by
David
G.
Bettison;
and
THE
AFRICAN
RAILWAY
WORKERS
UNION,
NDOLA,
NORTHERN
RHODESIA,
by
Parkinson
B.
Mwewa.
All
communications
of
the
Rhodes-
Livingstone
Institute, Nos. 8, 9 and
10
respectively
and
published
by Institute in
Lusaka at
3S.
6d.,
2S.,
and
IS.
6d.
respectinely,
As
the
Director
of
the
Rhodes-Livingstone
Institute
wrote in his 1958
report,
social
scientists
are
sometimes criticised for
the
time lag between
their
research
and
the
publica-
tion of
their
findings.
The
"Communications"
series
of
cyclostyled reports has been
revived to meet such criticism
and
to
make
interim
reports on
current
research available
to government officers
and
others.
The
titles noted above
are
now available.
EARLY
PORTUGESE
MISSIONARIES IN
EAST
AFRICA
by
Sir
John
Gray;
Macmillan
&
Co.
u«,
2S;
pp.
53.
An interesting little
paper
backed book
about
Portuguese contacts,
and
especially
missionary contacts, with
the
coasts
of
East Africa from
the
fifteenth to eighteenth
centuries.
Written
by a former
Chief
Justice
of
Zanzibar, it is full of interesting anec-
dotes
and
quips.
SLAVERY
by
C.
W.
W.
Greenidge.
George
Allen &Unwin Ltd.:
1958;
£1
is-od.
pp.
235
with
appendices
and
index.
Asober
and
objective
account
of
slavery in its different forms;
the
progress
made
in
abolishing it,
and
areview
of
what
remains to be done.
The
author
is Director of
the
Anti-Slavery Society
and
was a
member
of
the
United
Nations ad hoc
Committee
of
Experts on slavery.
On
the
whole, Africa,
and
especially British Africa, comes well
out
of
the
assessment
of
the
present picture,
but
the conclusion is
that
there
is no
room
for
complacency or for a relaxation
of
vigilance in
many
areas.
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