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African Urban Family Life and the Urban System

African Urban Family Life and the Urban System African Urban Urban Family System * Life and the PETER C. W. GUTKIND McGill University, Montreal, Canada there are some significant landmarks in the history of sociological Although studies of African urban life, such as Hellmann's and anthropological Rooiyard in 19391 and Wilson's work in Broken Hill published in 1941/422, it is study only recently that we have entered a far more creative period of research and To understand this we must look back a little. orientation. In the first case, while nowadays African urban studies are generally conducted social anthropologists, an earlier generation as of fieldworkers, by Gluckman has pointed out, were "reared on the rural tradition of the tribe"3. Indeed, Audrey Richards reports: In 1931 I first left the under-populated bush inhabited by the Bemba of north-eastern Rhodesia to study the men and women of this tribe who had migrated to the copper mining towns to the south. My conduct was then thought rather unusual in a social anthropologist. I was even told by one of my professors not to meddle with those modern urban problems, but to stick to "really scientific work" in an unspoilt tribe !4 Likewise, the whole outlook of colonial policy and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Asian and African Studies Brill

African Urban Family Life and the Urban System

Gutkind, Peter C.W.
Journal of Asian and African Studies , Volume 1 (1): 35 – Jan 1, 1966
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Brill
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Copyright 1966 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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0021-9096
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10.1163/156852166X00361
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African Urban Urban Family System * Life and the PETER C. W. GUTKIND McGill University, Montreal, Canada there are some significant landmarks in the history of sociological Although studies of African urban life, such as Hellmann's and anthropological Rooiyard in 19391 and Wilson's work in Broken Hill published in 1941/422, it is study only recently that we have entered a far more creative period of research and To understand this we must look back a little. orientation. In the first case, while nowadays African urban studies are generally conducted social anthropologists, an earlier generation as of fieldworkers, by Gluckman has pointed out, were "reared on the rural tradition of the tribe"3. Indeed, Audrey Richards reports: In 1931 I first left the under-populated bush inhabited by the Bemba of north-eastern Rhodesia to study the men and women of this tribe who had migrated to the copper mining towns to the south. My conduct was then thought rather unusual in a social anthropologist. I was even told by one of my professors not to meddle with those modern urban problems, but to stick to "really scientific work" in an unspoilt tribe !4 Likewise, the whole outlook of colonial policy and

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Published: Jan 1, 1966

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