George Peter Murdock 1897 — 1985 Professor of Anthropology, Yale University Africa. Its Peoples and Their Culture History New York. McGraw-Hill. 1959. 456 p.

Social structure (1949) / Outline of Cultural Materials - OCM (1961) / OCM as SKOS Vocabulary

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To Americans of African Descent

Keyu warriors overlooking the Rift Valley, Kenya (Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnology, Harvard University)

Kung Bushmen girl (Peabody Museum of Archeology & Ethnology, Harvard University)

Contents

Preface
List of Maps

Part One: Orientation

1. Geography
2. Race
3. Language
4. Economy
5. Society
6. Government
7. History

Part Two: African Hunters

8. Pygmies
9. Bushmen and Their Kin
10. East African Hunters

Part Three: Sudanic Agricultural Civilization

11. Nuclear Mande
12. Voltaic Peoples
13. Plateau Nigerians

Part Four: North African Agricultural Civilization

14. Ancient Egyptians
15. Berbers
16. Saharan Negroes and the Caravan Trade
17. Negroes of the Sudan Fringe
18. Punic and Greco-Roman North Africa

Part Five: Synthesis in the Nile Corridor

19. Nubians
20. Nuba
21. Prenilotes
22. Central Ethiopians
23. Sidamo Peoples

Part Six: Southward Expansion of the Cushites

24. Southern Cushites
25. Megalithic Cushites
26. Ancient Azanians

Part Seven: Cultural Impact of Indonesia

27. Malagasy
28. Central Sudanic Peoples
29. Eastern Nigritic Peoples
30. Cameroon Highlanders
31. Southern Nigerians
32. Twi
33. Kru and Peripheral Mande
34. Senegambians

Part Eight: Expansion of the Bantu

35. Northwestern Bantu
36. Equatorial Bantu
37. Mongo and Luba
38. Central Bantu
39. Northeast Coastal Bantu

Part Nine: East African Pastoralism

40. Beja
41. Afar and Somali
42. Galla
43. Nilotes

Part Ten: Spread of Pastoralism to the Bantu

44. Kenya Highland Bantu
45. Interlacustrine Bantu
46. Tanganyika Bantu
47. Middle Zambesi Bantu
48. Southwestern Bantu
49. Shona and Thonga
50. Nguni
51. Sotho

Part Eleven: North and West African Pastoralism

52. Bedouin Arabs
53. Tuareg
54. Baggara
55. Fulani

Key to Bibliographical Abbreviations
Index of Tribal Names

List of maps

1. Relief of Africa
2. Drainage Systems of Africa
3. Mean Annual Rainfall in Africa
4. Vegetation Zones of Africa
5. Distribution of Races in Africa
6. African Languages about A.D. 1500
7. Distribution of Types of Subsistence Economy
8. Distribution of Cattle and of Milking
9. Distribution of Rules of Descent
10. Culture Provinces of the Western Sudan
11. Areas of Berber Speech
12. Trans-Saharan Caravan Routes
13. Culture Provinces of the Yam Belt
14. Culture Provinces of Bantu Africa
15. East African Pastoralists
16. Major Concentrations of Fulani
17. Tribal Map of Africa [pocket inside back cover]