THE LIFE OF A SOUTH AFRICAN TRIBE

In 2 volumes complete: 1. Social Life. 2. Mental Life'

Second Edition Revised and Enlarged. 2 volumes, 557 + 660 pages, illustrated throughout with photographs and sketches, title page vignette, pictorial green cloth titled gilt on the upper covers and spines.  A very good set of the second and best edition.

Schapera (I.) Select Bibliography of South African Native Life and Problems, Ethnology 683 (page 106), 'Deservedly ranked as one of the greatest monographs on the ethnography of Africa. Under the headings 'life of the individual; family and village life; national life; agricultural and industrial life; literary and artistic life; religious life and superstitions,' it gives well nigh exhaustive account of Tonga culture, distinguished especially by its many concrete illustrations of individual variation and of the changes due to the impact of Western civilization. The book is not altogether beyond criticism, and the section on political life is by no means as full as could have been wished, but as a whole it is a magnificent piece of work’.

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Henri-Alexandre Junod (17 June 1863 - 22 April 1934) was a Swiss-born South African missionary, ethnographer, anthropologist, linguist and naturalist, stationed for much of his career at Shilovane Mission Station outside Tzaneen in Limpopo Province. He received an early training in Protestant ministry at Basel and Berlin. He was one of the founding members of the Lemana Training College at Njhakanjhaka village near the Township of Waterval at Elim in 1906. Together with Reverend Creux he codified the language of the Tsonga people. (wikipedia)