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'For those about to embark on fieldwork it still provides a spring board for more theoretical research and for those engaged in wider analysis with suggestions of where the most useful material for comparison might be found.' Jean La Fontaine, London School of Economics 'Written by experts, many volumes in the Ethnographic Survey of Africa have become classics. Generations of scholars and students have relied on them for an introduction to the ethnography of a particular African region. Taken together, because they all have the same structure and coverage, they remain an unsurpassed resource for comparative studies of traditional African societies.' Adam Kuper, London School of Economics Written by knowledgeable anthropologists for administrators, missionaries, development planners or scholars most of these volumes were soon much used and in great demand. Today most of these volumes have become secure points of entry into the study of the same populations as they are now half a century later. The surveys allow the user to precisely evaluate continuities and changes and thereby tell an internal history of the populations involved. Once again the surveys promise to be invaluable to all those who are concerned with them whether they be historians, anthropologists, geographers or specialists and planners of all kinds such as demographers or environmentalists.' Jan Vansina, University of Wisconsin-Madison

'For those about to embark on fieldwork it still provides a spring board for more theoretical research and for those engaged in wider analysis with suggestions of where the most useful material for comparison might be found.' Jean La Fontaine, London School of Economics `Written by experts, many volumes in the Ethnographic Survey of Africa have become classics. Generations of scholars and students have relied on them for an introduction to the ethnography of a particular African region. Taken together, because they all have the same structure and coverage, they remain an unsurpassed resource for comparative studies of traditional African societies.' Adam Kuper, London School of Economics Written by knowledgeable anthropologists for administrators, missionaries, development planners or scholars most of these volumes were soon much used and in great demand. Today most of these volumes have become secure points of entry into the study of the same populations as they are now half a century later. The surveys allow the user to preciselyã evaluate continuities and changes and thereby tell an internal history of the populations involved. Once again the surveys promise to be invaluable to all those who are concerned with them whether they be historians, anthropologists, geographers or specialists and planners of all kinds such as demographers or environmentalists.' Jan Vansina, University of Wisconsin-Madison

'For those about to embark on fieldwork it still provides a spring board for more theoretical research and for those engaged in wider analysis with suggestions of where the most useful material for comparison might be found.' Jean La Fontaine, London School of Economics `Written by experts, many volumes in the Ethnographic Survey of Africa have become classics. Generations of scholars and students have relied on them for an introduction to the ethnography of a particular African region. Taken together, because they all have the same structure and coverage, they remain an unsurpassed resource for comparative studies of traditional African societies.' Adam Kuper, London School of Economics Written by knowledgeable anthropologists for administrators, missionaries, development planners or scholars most of these volumes were soon much used and in great demand. Today most of these volumes have become secure points of entry into the study of the same populations as they are now half a century later. The surveys allow the user to preciselyã evaluate continuities and changes and thereby tell an internal history of the populations involved. Once again the surveys promise to be invaluable to all those who are concerned with them whether they be historians, anthropologists, geographers or specialists and planners of all kinds such as demographers or environmentalists.' Jan Vansina, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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