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Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- INTRODUCTION -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- I LAND AND LABOUR1 -- II EXCHANGE AND CONSUMPTION1 -- III FISSION AND ACCRETION IN THE PATRICLAN1 -- IV DOUBLE DESCENT AND THE MATRILINEAL SYSTEM1 -- V WARD ORGANIZATION* -- VI VILLAGE GOVERNMENT -- VII SPIRITS, WITCHES, AND SORCERERS1 -- VIII FIRST FRUITS RITUALS* -- IX THE CONTEXT OF BELIEF1 -- INDEX

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- FOREWORD -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PART I - GENERAL -- Tribal and Sub-Tribal Groupings and Demography -- Nomenclature -- Location -- Grouping -- Population Estimates -- History and Traditions of Origin -- Language -- Physical Environment -- Main Features of Economy -- Agriculture -- Cocoa Farming -- Palm Products -- Trade -- Crafts -- Social Organisation and Political Structure -- Local and Kinship Grouping -- Kinship Terminology -- Forms of Settlement -- Age Sets -- Associations and Guilds -- Women' s Associations -- Cult Groups -- The State -- Administration -- Personnel of Government -- Military Organisation -- Legal Procedure -- Inheritance of Goods -- Land Tenure -- Slavery -- Pawning -- Main Cultural Features -- Dress and Tribal Marks -- Birth -- Circumcision Rites -- Marriage -- Divorce -- Religious Beliefs and Cults -- Shamanism -- Magic -- PART II -- 1. Oyo or Yoruba Proper -- 2. Ife-Ilesha -- 3. Ibadan -- 4. Egba, Egbado, Tsha, Ana(Ife) and related groups -- 5. Ijebu -- 6. Ekiti and related groups -- 7. Ondo -- 8. Yoruba in the Colony -- 9. Yoruba in the Northern Provinces -- Bibliography

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- IBO (IGBO) -- PART I. GENERAL -- Tribal and Sub-tribal Groupings and Demography -- Language -- Physical Environment -- Main Features of Economy -- Social Organization and Political Structure -- Some other Cultural Features -- Religious Beliefs and Cults -- PART II -- 1. Northern or Onitsha Ibo -- 2. Southern or Owerri Ibo -- 3. Western Ibo -- 4. Eastern or Cross River Ibo -- 5. North-Eastern Ibo -- Bibliography -- IBIBIO -- PART I. GENERAL -- Tribal and Sub-tribal Groupings and Demography -- Language -- Physical Environment -- Main Features of Economy -- Social Organization and Political Structure -- Distinctive Cultural Features -- PART II -- 1. Eastern or Ibibio Proper -- 2. Western or Anang Ibibio -- 3. Northern or Enyong Ibibio -- 4. Southern or Eket Ibibio -- 5. Delta or Andoni-Ibeno Ibibio -- 6. Riverain Ibibio or Efik -- Bibliography

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Original Title -- Original Copyright -- FOREWORD -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- I. THE NUPE -- Tribal and Sub-tribal Groupings and Demography -- Introduction -- Nomenclature -- Location -- Neighbouring tribes -- Nupe sub-tribes -- Demographic data -- Traditions of Origin and History -- Language -- Physical Environment -- Main Features of Economy -- General -- Agriculture -- Organization and division of labour -- Livestock -- Hunting and fishing -- Markets and trade -- Industries, crafts and professions -- Social Organization and Political System -- Local and kinship grouping -- Forms of settlement: house types -- The political system -- Status and titles -- Patronage -- Age-sets -- Government -- Village organization -- The political system of the Kyedye -- Organization of Kutigi town (Beni sub-tribe) -- Legal procedure -- Inheritance -- Land tenure -- Slavery -- Pawning -- Position of women -- Cultural Features and the Life Cycle -- Physical characteristics: tribal marks: dress -- Birth -- Circumcision -- Marriage -- Divorce -- Burial -- Religious Beliefs and Cults -- General -- Spirits -- Cults -- The gunnu cult -- Medicines -- Divination -- Witchcraft -- Bibliography -- II. THE IGBIRA -- Grouping and Demography -- Location -- Neighbouring tribes -- Nomenclature -- Groupings -- Demographic data -- Traditions of Origin and History -- Language -- Physical Environment -- Main Features of Economy -- Agriculture -- Livestock, fishing, and hunting -- Trade -- Crafts -- Social Organization and Political System -- The family -- Kinship terminology and behaviour -- Forms of settlement: house types -- Clans -- Local organization -- The compound -- Land tenure -- Village organization -- Political units -- Chiefship -- Succession and Inheritance -- Slavery -- Legal procedure -- Warfare

A detailed critique of the range and scope of the process of acculturation, or Westernization, in modern Africa. Pre-European social organization is a characterization in terms of small autonomous local communities, dispersed tribal societies, and native state systems. The coastal impact of Western traders after the 15th cent. modified these indigenous forms, but it was after Europeans began to govern, that the observable effects of Westernization began to produce the patterns and trends in African social organization which are observable today. The principal general results of European penetration are: (1) pacification of internecine conflict and (2) the growth of a market economy. With the former came a gradual acceptance of European political and juridical institutions, and with the latter, a need for European education, religion, and forms of economic association. The author, while not disclaiming that Western influence has produced disorganization in native social institutions, is careful to show the structural and functional development of new patterns of association, obligation and collective interests, resulting in a gradual restructuring of societies in West Africa, a process still going on and primising a beneficial outcome. M. F. Lewis.