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DUMAS-CHAMPION, Françoise, Les Masa du Tchad—Bétail et société (Collection: Production pastorale et société), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Paris, Editions de la sciences de l'homme, 1983, 276pp, 0 531 25386 1

DUMAS-CHAMPION, Françoise, Les Masa du Tchad—Bétail et société (Collection: Production pastorale... 276 As Rodney Needham observed some years ago, anthropology is heading either for disintegration or for brilliant metamorphosis. If the second and more desirable alternative is achieved, it may well be due in good measure to the pioneering spirit and tireless intellec- tual labours of Victor Turner. University of Edinburgh, U. K. ROY WILLIS Reviews DUMAS-CHAMPION, Françoise, Les Masa du Tchad � Bétail et société (Collection: Production pastorale et société), Cambridge, Cam- bridge University Press, Paris, Editions de la sciences de l'homme, 1983, 276pp, 0 531 25386 1 This is an ethnography of one of the numerous so-called 'tribal' societies whose populations in the past were used as reservoirs of potential slaves by the adjacent Islamic polities, a relationship which in some ways defines a region extending from the Atlantic coast to the foothills of the Ethiopian highlands. This study is based on several periods of research among Masa between 1973 and 1980 and deals largely, as the title indicates, with the agro-pastoral interests of the people and their relationship to the acephalous segmentary structure of Masa society. The approach is a dated structural-functionalism in which, when general issues are addressed, the latter are defined by the now http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

DUMAS-CHAMPION, Françoise, Les Masa du Tchad—Bétail et société (Collection: Production pastorale et société), Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Paris, Editions de la sciences de l'homme, 1983, 276pp, 0 531 25386 1

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Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 18 (3): 276 – Jan 1, 1988
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© 1988 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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276 As Rodney Needham observed some years ago, anthropology is heading either for disintegration or for brilliant metamorphosis. If the second and more desirable alternative is achieved, it may well be due in good measure to the pioneering spirit and tireless intellec- tual labours of Victor Turner. University of Edinburgh, U. K. ROY WILLIS Reviews DUMAS-CHAMPION, Françoise, Les Masa du Tchad � Bétail et société (Collection: Production pastorale et société), Cambridge, Cam- bridge University Press, Paris, Editions de la sciences de l'homme, 1983, 276pp, 0 531 25386 1 This is an ethnography of one of the numerous so-called 'tribal' societies whose populations in the past were used as reservoirs of potential slaves by the adjacent Islamic polities, a relationship which in some ways defines a region extending from the Atlantic coast to the foothills of the Ethiopian highlands. This study is based on several periods of research among Masa between 1973 and 1980 and deals largely, as the title indicates, with the agro-pastoral interests of the people and their relationship to the acephalous segmentary structure of Masa society. The approach is a dated structural-functionalism in which, when general issues are addressed, the latter are defined by the now

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