1.) THE BANTU-SPEAKING TRIBES OF SOUTH AFRICA (1937) & 2.) MARRIED LIFE IN AN AFRICAN TRIBE (1940)

1.) THE BANTU-SPEAKING TRIBES OF SOUTH AFRICA - An Ethnographical Survey

First edition, George Routledge & Sons (London), Maskew Miller (Cape Town), 1937.

Publisher's red cloth binding with titles in gilt on spine.

xv + 454pp. Includes 24 plates and map (all present).

Binding is solid and contents clean.

True first edition of this famous early 20th century ethnographical work which has seen many reprints since its first appearance in 1937.

Edited and with contributions by Isaac Schapera (1905-2003), who was a South African-born social anthropologist and president of the Royal Anthropology Institute. His first ethnographical work Bushman Arrow Poisons was published when he was only 19 years old. 

With contributions by some of South Africa's foremost ethnographers, ethnologists and anthropologists of the time, including Raymond A. Dart, Clement M. Doke, A. Winifred Hoernle, I. Schapera, N. J. van Warmelo, Monica Hunter, Eileen Jensen Krige, Ellen P. Hellmann etc.

Contents include:

Racial Origins, Habitat, Grouping and Ethnic History, Social Organization, Individual Development, Domestic and Communal Life, Work and Wealth, Political Institutions, Law and Justice, Magic and Medicine, Religious Beliefs and Customs, The Musical Practices of the Native Races of South Africa, Traditional Literature, Language, The Imposition and Nature of European Control, Cultural Changes in Tribal Life, The Bantu on European-owned Farms, The Native in the Towns.

2.) MARRIED LIFE IN AN AFRICAN TRIBE 

First edition, Faber and Faber, London, 1940.

Publisher's black cloth binding with gilt titles on spine.

364 pages, frontispiece + 7 plates and map.

Solid binding with clean text. Dust jacket with some age-associated wear on spine crown but still very good.

'Not since Malinowski's Sexual Life of Savages has a more interesting account than this been written of the relations between the sexes in a primitive community. Professor Schapera, on the basis of observations carried out for several years, describes all those factors - economic, social, and psychological - which form the conditions of love and marriage among the Kgatla of Bechuanaland.

The book, though it is written by a leading South African anthropologist, contains no technical terms, and has a very direct appeal to all students of human nature and its eternal problems.'