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Rites of Passage: African Studies Comes of Age

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 August 2021

J. Gus Liebenow
J. Gus Liebenow*
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Indiana University
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We live in an age when baptisms, bar mitzvahs, tahara, weddings, and other significant rites of passage are being observed with decreasing frequency. Indeed, one of those solemn rites–the legal, political, and social transition into adult status at the magic age of 21–has been battered by custom, by law, and even by a constitutional amendment.

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Research Article
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African Issues , Volume 9 , Issue 1-2 , Spring/Summer 1979 , pp. 3 - 11
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1979 

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Notes

The text of this article was originally delivered as the 1978 Presidential Address before members of the African Studies Association on November 2, 1978, in Baltimore, Maryland.

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2. Report of the Committee on African Studies, prepared for the Ford Foundation (cyclostyle, August 1958), pp. 63ff.

3. The NDEA centers in 1978 were UCLA, University of Florida, University of Illinois, Indiana University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Stanford University, and University of Wisconsin.

4. Op.cit., pp. 9-10.

5. “The Cattle Complex in East Africa,” American Anthropologist, Vol. 28 (1926), parts I–IV, passim.

6. African Studies Bulletin, Vol. 2, No. 4 (Dec, 1959), p. 14.

7. Richard Lambert, Language and Area Studies Review. Monograph No. 17 of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences (1973), pp. 149ff.

8. Reitzel, William, Kaplan, Morton and Coblenz, Constance, United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1955 (Washington, 1956)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Brookings Institution, Major Problems of United States Foreign Policy, 1954 (Washington, 1954), p. 289.

9. Op. cit., p. 38.

10. Op. cit., pp. 41 ff.

11. Mhone, Guy Cz, “The Case against Africanists,” Issue, Volume 2, (Summer 1972), p. 13 Google Scholar.