Mair, L.P. / [Lucy Philip Mair].

An African People in the Twentieth Century.

Frontispiece, XV, 300 pages. 8 illustrations. Map near front. London, George Routledge & Sons, 1934. 14 cm x 22.5 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 300 pages with Index. Eight monochrome plates including frontispiece. Hardcover [publisher’s original brown cloth] with gilt lettering on spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Front pastedown carries bookplate / Exlibris of Charles P Groves.

Includes, for example, the following: Birth and Childhood / Marriage / Economic Organization / Land Tenure / Political Organization / Death and Succession / Religion and Magic etc.
The Index gives for example hints towards text-passages on: Beer, Rituals, Ritual Murders, Human Sacrifice, Sorcery, Plague, Myths, Polygamy, Lake Victoria, Hunting, Dancing etc.

Lucy Philip Mair (28 January 1901 – 1 April 1986) was a British anthropologist and a professor at the London School of Economics.
This book, her doctoral thesis at the University of London, is the result of an intensive field study. Its aim was to describe native Baganda life as European influences modified it, and to estimate the degree of success or failure with which the newly introduced elements were assimilated and the reasons for this success or failure. (Wikipedia)

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120136AB

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