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Aim of this paper is not to present a full description of ancestor veneration among the Nkoya. It concerns the extent to which an analytical theory of Afrian religious change is capable of explaining contemporary plurality of religious forms in selected areas of Africa as the...

Aim of this volume, which brings together seven studies of religious change in Zambia, is to describe the processes of religious change in this country during the last few centuries. These studies are: 1) Towards a theory of religious change in Central Africa. 2) Possession...

Aim of this volume, which brings together seven studies of religious change in Zambia, is to describe the processes of religious change in this country during the last few centuries. These studies are: 1) Towards a theory of religious change in Central Africa. 2) Possession...

The alternative proposed here for the tribal model as a unit of study is not another, better unit of study (e.g. a mode of production, an expanding social formation, or a well-defined spatio-temporal portion of reality), but a growing awareness of possible problems and...

Aim of this chapter is to present a picture of anthropological work on sub-saharan Africa as undertaken in the Netherlands during the 1970s. After the introduction follows, in section 2, a discussion of the discipline and its predicaments. In section 3 the author discusses...

Dans cette esquisse le groupement kapsiki du Nord Cameroun et le groupement higi du Nigéria ont été considérés comme une seule ethnie. Leur histoire ne peut être qu'une synthèse des histoires villageoises, en l'absence d'une tradition générale pour toute l...

Investigates the direct effects of modern transport on advance into the interior, structure and organization, and withdrawal from the interior in the 1950s and 1960s of these firms. A revised edition of this article in: Cahiers d'études africaines, 21 (1981), 84, p. 547-...

A partir d'une "étude de cas" au niveau micro, cet article se propose de montrer la nature des relations qui existent entre, d'une part, les paysans (notammant ceux de Birkama, village balante de Casamance, Sud-Sénégal), d'autre part, le capitalisme...