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Africa in the wider world : the inter-relationship of area and comparative studies

Title
Africa in the wider world : the inter-relationship of area and comparative studies / edited by David Brokensha and Michael Crowder.
Publication
Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, [1967]

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Additional Authors
  • Brokensha, David
  • Crowder, Michael, 1934-1988
  • University of California, Berkeley. Institute of International Studies.
  • Fourah Bay College. Institute of African Studies.
Description
viii, 291 pages : maps; 20 cm
Series Statement
Commonwealth and international library
Uniform Title
Commonwealth and international library
Subject
  • Interdisciplinary research > Africa
  • Interdisciplinary research
  • Interdisziplinäre Forschung
  • Aufsatzsammlung
  • Africa > Congresses
  • Africa
  • Afrika
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Note
  • Papers from a conference held in Sierra Leone in 1966 sponsored by the Institute of International Studies of the University of Calif. and the Institute of African Studies of Fourah Bay College.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
Introduction / David Brokensha and Michael Crowder -- Musicology. Musicology and African music : a review of problems and areas of research / J.H. Kwabena Nketia -- Art. Ogboni sculpture : a critical appraisal of its creative attributes / J. Newton Hill -- Literature. Modern African literature in the English language / John Povey -- Archaeological studies / J. Desmond Clark -- History / Arthur T. Porter -- Political science and the changing character of African political problems / Carl G. Rosberg Jr. -- Economics. An economist looks at area and comparative studies / David Carney -- Anthropology. Community studies / David Brokensha -- Geography. African cities and some theoretical underpinnings in urban geography / Akin L. Mabogunje -- Law. The legal order, contemporary social change and the development of law in Sierra Leone / W.S. Marcus Jones -- Linguistics. African languages and linguistics / Jack Berry -- Psychology. Psychology in Ghana : studies of the electrical rhythms of the brain / A.C. Mundy-Castle -- Philosophy. Philosophy and African studies / Robin Horton.
ISBN
  • 008203544X
  • 9780082035442
LCCN
67029596
OCLC
  • ocm00414383
  • 414383
  • SCSB-872470
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library