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Tribe and Class in Monrovia
Hardcover
Series: African Ethnographic Studies of the 20th Century
AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology
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ISBN13: 9781138594210
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Aug 22 2018
Pages: 262
Language: English
Originally published in 1964, this book analyses the unique type of social stratification which is more akin to a social class system in Monrovia, Liberia's capital. Liberia, established in 1847 has no history of rule by a colonial power and is of perculiar sociological interest, having been governed until the first half of the twentieth century by a minority group of immigrants from America and their descendants. The bulk of the population, however, is made up of members of about 20 tribes, between whom and the American descendants a caste-like social system has developed.
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