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Schism and Continuity in an African Society: A Study of Ndembu Village Life. By V. W. Turner. Manchester University Press for Rhodes–Livingstone Institute, 1957. Pp. xxiv + 348, ill., maps. 35s.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 January 2012

A. I. Richards
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Africa , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , January 1959 , pp. 88 - 90
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Copyright © International African Institute 1959

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1 The change from uxorilocal to virilocal marriage is becoming more and more marked under present economic conditions; Turner made his observations between 1950 and 1954, Mitchell among the Yao between 1946 and 1949, and I among the Bemba in 1930–4.

2 Cf. Fortes on Ashanti, in ‘Time and social structure: an Ashanti case history’, in Studies Preseated to A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, 1949Google Scholar; Mitchell, J. C., The Yao Village, 1956Google Scholar; Richards, A. I., ‘Some types of family structure among the Central Bantu’, in African Systems of Kinship and Marriage, ed. Radcliffe-Brown, and Forde, , 1950Google Scholar; and recent work by E. Colson, D. Schneider, and others.