Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Orginal Publication Date
1981
Journal Title
Explorations in Sights and Sounds
Volume
1
Issue
ess/vol1/iss1
First Page
26
Last Page
28
Abstract
Schneider’s The Africans offers a provocative interpretation of African society. Unlike other introductory texts, Schneider is not concerned with an exhaustive or even representative survey of African life; rather, his concern is to put forth a non-Marxist social-cultural-economic theory of African society which would provide a broad analytical framework. He succeeds in sketching, in this comparatively slim volume, a sweeping new view of African society. (Cf., G. P. Murdock, Africa, Its Peoples and Their Culture History, New York, 1959; James L. Gibbs, Jr., ed., Peoples of Africa, New York, 1965; Paul Bohannan and Philip Curtin, Africa and Africans, Garden City, New York, 1971; and Lucy Mair, African Societies, Cambridge, 1974.)
Rights
Copyright, ©EES, The National Association for Ethnic Studies, 1981