West African Studies
London: Macmillan, 1901.
Hardcover. Very Good. Second edition, with additional chapters. xxxii, 507 pp + 4 pp ads. Index, frontis portrait, 27 plates from photographs, folding map of Tropical West Africa. Foxing to front matter, small stain on spine, else clean and sound. No dust jacket. A follow-up to her Travels in West Africa (1897), this ambitious book outlined a new plan for the administration of the West African colonies that would give control to European trading interests (rather than bureaucrats) while incorporating African opinion and leaving native cultural, legal, and social organizations intact (DNB). The book also includes much new detail from her extensive studies of tribal customs (fetishism, witchcraft, medicine, religious practice) and natural history.
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