Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
x, 246 Seiten
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Serie:
African Research Studies 8
DDC:
916/.03/072
Schlagwort(e):
Afrika Kultur, Ursprung
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Kulturanthropologie
;
Kunst, afrikanische
;
Anthropologie, historische
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
A record of early agriculture and metallurgy in Africa from archaeological sources, by J. D. Clark. Ethnology and African culture history, by H. S. Lewis. African languages and African pre-history, by R. W. Wescott. The use of oral tradition inAfrican culture history, by J. Vansina. The use of music as a technique of reconstructing culture history in Africa, by A. P. Merriam. African art and culture history, by R. Sieber. The origin of the sickle-cell gene, by F. B. Livingstone. The bearings of botanical evidence on African culture history, by E. Anderson. Biosystematics of cultivated plants, by J. R. Harlan. Murdock's classification of tropical African food economies, by M. P. Miracle. Coda: Toward an interdisciplinary method for African culture history, by C. Gabel.
Anmerkung:
"With one exception, the following essays on African culture history represent the results of a symposium held at Northwestern University in November 1962" (Preface)Enthält 11 Beiträge
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