VOLUME XLIIL NO. z APRIL 1973 AFRICA JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN INSTITUTE JOURNAL DE L'INSTITUT 'INTERNATIONAL AFRICAIN ZEITSCHRIFT DES INTERNATIONALEN AFRIKANISCHEN INSTITUTS

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Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.219, on 29 Sep 2021 at 18:17:27, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0001972000086836 Volume XLIII, No. 2 APRIL 1975 CONTENTS OF THIS NUMBER Page THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE NYAKYUSA: A RE-EVALUATION. Michael G. McKenny 91 INHERITANCE AND WOMEN'S LABOUR IN AFRICA. jack Goody and Joan Buckley 108 ANCESTORS AS ELDERS IN AFRICA—FURTHER THOUGHTS. James L. Brain 122 SMALL-SCALE FARMING SYSTEMS IN GHANA. George Benneh 134 TTV KURAIYOL, BODY PROTECTORS. Harold M. Bergsma 147 NOTES AND NEWS 15 5 PROFESSOR MALCOLM GUTHRIE; W. H. WHITELEY MEMORIAL FUND; THE UNIVERSITE NATION- ALE DE ZAIRE (UNAZA); INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH PROGRAM ON ANGOLA, MOZAMBIQUE AND GUINEA (BISSAU); REPORT OF THE FRENCH RESEARCH TEAM ON LINGUISTICS AND LITERA- TURE IN THE WESTERN SUDAN; SOCIO-MUSICAL RESEARCH AMONG THE SHANGANA-TSONGA OF SOUTH-EAST AFRICA; TEACHING OF ANTHROPOLOGY IN BELGIUM; CENTRE FOR NIGERIAN CULTURAL STUDIES; THE INTERNATIONAL LEGAL CENTER, NEW YORK; AFRICAN-AMERICAN LABOR CENTER: DOCUMENTATION CENTER AT LOME; UNIVERSITY OF DAR ES SALAAM: ECON- OMIC RESEARCH BUREAU; AFRICAN MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BIRMINGHAM UNIVERSITY LIBRARY; THE COLLECTION OF ARABIC MANUSCRIPTS IN MALI; NIGERIAN PERIODICALS AND NEWSPAPERS, I950-I970. REVIEWS OF BOOKS 158

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