JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE JOURNAL DE L'INSTITUT INTERNATIONAL DES ZEITSCHRIFT DES INTERNATIONALEN INSTITUTS Edited by DIEDRICH WESTERMANN VOLUME I 1928 OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON: HUMPHREY MILFORD Edwards African Negro Music. E. M. von Hornbostel Primitive Law in Eastern Africa. J. H. Driberg Le Théâtre Mandingue (Soudan Français). Henri Labouret et Moussa Maurice Delafosse: A Personal Appreciation. Henri Labouret Recent Literature on Bantu Tribes: Some Ethnological and Linguistic The Influence of the Kingdom of Kongo on Central Africa. E. Torday 157 Economic Changes in South African Native Life. I. Schapera Gottesvorstellungen in Oberguinea. Diedrich Westermann . African Sculpture. Eckart von Sydow Le Coton et l'Indigène. Henri Labouret Some Conclusions concerning the Bantu Conception of the Soul. Preferential Marriage. Werner Eiselen Aufgaben der Gemeinschaftsbildung in Afrika. Bruno Gutmann. The Dance. E. E. Evans-Pritchard. La Renaissance de l'Olivier et la Propriété foncière dans l'Afrique JOURNAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES VOLUME I JANUARY 1928 NUMBER I THE INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF AFRICAN BY THE RT. HON. SIR F. D. LUGARD (Chairman of the Executive Council) HERE are at the present time so many societies and institutes— THERE are at the tim for the study of African questions that there would be no justification for the inauguration of yet another unless it had an object in view, different from, or at least not effectively met by, any existing organization. There are, as it seems to me, two directions in which the organizations at present in existence need to be supplemented, and the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures has been founded in the hope of meeting these two requirements. In the first place the Institute will be a co-ordinating agency, a central bureau and a clearing-house for information. It will make the experience and knowledge of the most distinguished workers in African subjects in different parts of Africa and in Europe and America available in increasing measure for all workers in this field. It will make it possible for those who are working at a problem in isolation to learn more quickly and clearly than they might otherwise be able to do the kind of help and suggestion that they may obtain from those who are dealing with analogous problems in other parts of the Continent. The Institute will thus be neither the counterpart nor the rival of any existing society, but on the contrary will offer Africa,' the Journal of the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures, is published by the Institute, but except where otherwise stated the writers of the articles are alone responsible for the opinions expressed. B |