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Volume 41 - Issue 4 - October 1971

Notes and News

Conference on Manding Studies/Congrès d'Études Manding

‘Marriage Laws in Africa’, by Arthur Phillips and Henry F. Morris

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Law Without Precedent: Legal Ideas in Action in the Courts of Colonial Busoga. By Lloyd A. Fallers. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1969. Pp. xiv + 365. $12, £5.40.

Four African Political Systems. By Christian P. Potholm. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1970. Pp. ix+308, maps. £4.50. - Studies in African Politics. By P. B. Harris. London: Hutchinsons University Library, 1970. Pp. 181, bibl. £1.50; paperback 65p.

Technology, Tradition and the State in Africa. By Jack Goody. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1971. Pp. viii+88, bibl., ill., maps. £1.75.

Tribal Innovators: Tswana Chiefs and Social Change 1795–1940. By I. Schapera. London School of Economics Monographs on Social Anthropology No. 43. London: Athlone Press, 1970. Pp. x+278, bibl., ill. £3.00.

The Wahi Wanyaturu: Economics in an African Society. By Harold K. Schneider. (Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, no. 48, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.) Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company, 1970. Pp. 180, 23 plates, 6 maps.

New Essays in African Law. By Antony Allott. London: Butterworths, 1970. Pp. xxxiv+348, bibl. £3.75.

Republic of Kenya. Report of the Commission on the Law of Marriage and Divorce. J. F. Spry (Chairman). Nairobi: Government Printer, 1968. Pp. 209. Sh. 10. - Republic of Kenya. Report of the Commission on the Law of Succession. H. Slade (Chairman). Nairobi: Government Printer, 1968. Pp. 167. Sh. 10.

Frédéric Lugard et la pensée coloniale britannique de son temps. Par Claude Horrut. Institut d'Études politiques de Bordeaux, Centre d'Études d'Afrique Noire, ronéotypé, sans date. Pp. 83.

The Somali Republic. An experiment in legal integration. By Paolo Contini. London: Cass, 1969. Pp. viii+92, bibl. £2.10.

Luci e ombre dell'amministrazione britannica nel Bahr el Ghazal (1898–1955). By S. Santandrea. Como: P. Cairoli, for the Istituto Italiano per l'Africa, 1967. Pp. 98, map.

Bochimanes ! Khu de Angola. By Manuel Viegas Guerreiro. Lisbon: Junta de Investigações do Ultramar for the Institute de Investigação Cientifica de Angola, 1968. Pp. 387, map, photos, sketches, index.

The Ghanaian's Image of the Missionary. By Harris W. Mobley. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970. Pp. xi+180, bibl. No price.

Architecture in Northern Ghana: a Study of Forms and Functions. By Labelle Prussin. Berkeley and London: University of California Press, 1969. Pp. iv+120, bibl., ill., maps. £4.25.

Le Théâtre en Afrique noire et à Madagascar. Par R. Cornevin. Paris: Le Livre Africain, 1970. In-8, Pp. 335.

Chopi Musicians: their Music, Poetry and Instruments. By Hugh Tracey. [Reprint with new introduction, 1st edn.1948.] London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute, 1970. Pp. 193, 15 pls., 7 diagr., 11 pp. of music. £2.25.

Contes mossi actuels: Étude ethno-linguistique. By G. Canu. Dakar: IFAN, 1969. Pp. 361, bibl., map. F. 81.

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Volume 41 - Issue 4 - October 1971

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