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<p>Routledge is proud to be re-issuing this landmark series in association with the International African Institute. The series, published between 1950 and 1977, brings together a wealth of previously un-co-ordinated material on the ethnic groupings and social conditions of African peoples.</p> <p>Concise, critical and (for its time) accurate, the <i>Ethnographic Survey</i> contains sections as follows:</p> <ul> <li>Physical Environment</li> <li>Linguistic Data</li> <li>Demography</li> <li>History & Traditions of Origin</li> <li>Nomenclature</li> <li>Grouping</li> <li>Cultural Features: Religion, Witchcraft, Birth, Initiation, Burial</li> <li>Social & Political Organization: Kinship, Marriage, Inheritance, Slavery, Land Tenure, Warfare & Justice</li> <li>Economy & Trade</li> <li>Domestic Architecture</li> </ul> <p>Each of the 50 volumes will be available to buy individually, and these are organized into regional sub-groups: East Central Africa, North-Eastern Africa, Southern Africa, West Central Africa, Western Africa, and Central Africa Belgian Congo.</p> <p>The volumes are supplemented with maps, available to view on routledge.com or available as a pdf from the publishers.</p>