Survey of African Marriage and Family Life – Arthur Phillips [Editor]

Condition: Good.
First Edition, Oxford University Press, 1953, Vintage Hardback with removable protective plastic wrap – Africana – 462pp.

Originally published in 1953, this study examines the effect of social change on African domestic organisation and marriage. Changes to African social organisation due to increased contact with the West are analysed and accounts given as to how these changes were handled by various administrations and missionaries. The volume is contributed to by lawyers, missionaries, anthropologists and sociologists from Africa, Europe and the USA.

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