Daryll Forde
Biographic Data
| ID | 84498 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daryll Forde |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daryll |
| FAMILY NAME | Forde |
| SIGNATURE | FORDE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | UCL Australia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 68 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 410 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1934 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century
Marriage and Family among the Yakö in South-Eastern Nigeria
Originally published in 1951 this book analyses the social values and institutions involved in the establishment and maintenance of marital relationships. Most of the data is derived from Umor, the largest of the five Yakö villages. As well as considering the conventions through which mariatal values are expressed, the relation of marital status to the general structure of Yakö society is also discussed. The book also determines the extent to whi…
Ethnographic Survey of Africa
Peoples of the Niger-Benue Confluence (The Nupe. The Igbira. The Igala. The Idioma-speaking Peoples): Western Africa Part X
Peoples of the Niger-Benue Confluence: Western Africa Part X
African Systems of Kinship and Marriage
Originally published in 1950, "African Systems of Kinship and Marriage" is a seminal work in the field of social anthropology. Edited by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and Daryll Forde, the book presents a collection of essays by leading anthropologists of the time, offering detailed analyses of kinship and marriage systems across various African societies. The contributors examine the diverse structures and functions of kinship, including lineage, descent…
Daryll Forde 1902–1973
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Robert H. Lowie
1907. 1. (with Livingston Farrand) Marriage. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico. Washington. 1: 806-810. 1908.2. Catchwords for Mythological Motives.JAFL> 21: 24-27. 3. The Test-Theme in North American Mythology. JAFL, 21: 97-148. 4. Anthropological Publications of the American Museum of Natural History for 1907-1908.Science, 28: 522-524. 1909.5. The Northern Shoshone.AMNH-AP, 2: 165-302. 6. The Assiniboine.AMNH-AP, 4: 1-270. 7. (Edited…
West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century
Ecology and Social Structure
William O. Brown
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Problème de l'information et de la coordination sur la recherche et la bibliographie africaniste
Forde D. Problème de l'information et de la coordination sur la recherche et la bibliographie africaniste. In: Journal de la Société des Africanistes, 1968, tome 38, fascicule 2. pp. 234-239
The Political Organization of Unyamwezi
A detailed study of the political organization in an important area of Tanzania shortly before Independence. Unyamwezi covers 35,000 square miles and has a population of 400,000. Dr Abrahams outlines the social and economic framework and examines the origins of the modern political system. He then discusses the internal organization of Nyamwezi chiefdoms and villages and the emergence of national politics. The theoretical and comparative implicat…
Anthropology and the Development of African Studies
Opening ParagraphThe foundation and the broad policies of our Institute emerged from what proved a fortunate conjunction of diverse interests and opportunities that developed after the First World War. The initial phase of modern economic advance in tropical Africa, following the introduction of the telegraph, railways, all-weather roads, was by the twenties making apparent a wide range of needs and opportunities for further progress in Africa-pr…
Justice and Judgment among the Southern lbo under Colonial Rule
Tropical African Studies
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Essays on the Ritual of Social Relations
Rôle des sociétés dans le cérémonial funéraire des Yakö
Forde Daryll. Rôle des sociétés dans le cérémonial funéraire des Yakö. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 3, n°11, 1963. pp. 307-317
Une analyse sociologique des formalités matrimoniales chez les Yakö
Forde Daryll. Une analyse sociologique des formalités matrimoniales chez les Yakö. In: Cahiers d'études africaines, vol. 3, n°12, 1963. pp. 447-457
Harold Godfrey Judd, C.B.E
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The Governmental Roles of Associations among the Yakö
Opening ParagraphIn the study of indigenous African institutions that exercise control while promoting social cohesion and regulating inter-personal and inter-group competition, much attention has been given to the analysis of the governmental functions of kin groups on the one hand and of ritually sanctioned political chiefship on the other. Institutions of these two types, which correspond to the distinction made by Durkheim between segmental a…
The Context of Belief. A Consideration of Fetishism among the Yako
Report of the Administrative Director
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Ethnology and Ethnography: Nigeria: Background to Nationalism . James S. Coleman. Berkeley
Retirement of the Institute's Secretary Mrs. B. E. Wyatt
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African Systems of Kinship and Marriage
Originally published in 1950, "African Systems of Kinship and Marriage" is a seminal work in the field of social anthropology. Edited by A.R. Radcliffe-Brown and Daryll Forde, the book presents a collection of essays by leading anthropologists of the time, offering detailed analyses of kinship and marriage systems across various African societies. The contributors examine the diverse structures and functions of kinship, including lineage, descent…
West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century
Anthropology and the Development of African Studies
Opening ParagraphThe foundation and the broad policies of our Institute emerged from what proved a fortunate conjunction of diverse interests and opportunities that developed after the First World War. The initial phase of modern economic advance in tropical Africa, following the introduction of the telegraph, railways, all-weather roads, was by the twenties making apparent a wide range of needs and opportunities for further progress in Africa-pr…
Ward Organization among the Yakö
Opening ParagraphThe Yakö of the Middle Cross River area of Obubra Division in SE. Nigeria live in five compact villages a few miles apart, each of which was formerly autonomous in its political as well as its ritual organization. They have a common tradition that their forebears all came from Okuni, a settlement some 50 miles away up the Cross River, from which they came overland, for they were not river people, in several parties and over some …
Ecology and Social Structure
The Integration of Anthropological Studies
Government in Umor: A Study of Social Change and Problems of Indirect Rule in a Nigerian Village Community
Opening ParagraphThe policy of adapting 'for the purposes of local government the tribal institutions which the native people have evolved themselves, so that the latter may develop in a constitutional manner from their own past' depends for success on more than a general grasp of the outlines of native social organisation. Native standards of value as expressed in individual and collective behaviour, the operation of balances and checks in the s…
The Political Organization of Unyamwezi
A detailed study of the political organization in an important area of Tanzania shortly before Independence. Unyamwezi covers 35,000 square miles and has a population of 400,000. Dr Abrahams outlines the social and economic framework and examines the origins of the modern political system. He then discusses the internal organization of Nyamwezi chiefdoms and villages and the emergence of national politics. The theoretical and comparative implicat…
Alfred Reginald Radcliffe-Brown
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Dysgwylfa Fawr Barrow, Cardiganshire: A Food-Vessel and Dug-out Trunk Cremation Burial
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Spirits, Witches, and Sorcerers in the Supernatural Economy of the Yako
Daryll Forde, Spirits, Witches, and Sorcerers in the Supernatural Economy of the Yako, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 88, No. 2 (Jul. - Dec., 1958), pp. 165-178
Tropical African Studies
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The Governmental Roles of Associations among the Yakö
Opening ParagraphIn the study of indigenous African institutions that exercise control while promoting social cohesion and regulating inter-personal and inter-group competition, much attention has been given to the analysis of the governmental functions of kin groups on the one hand and of ritually sanctioned political chiefship on the other. Institutions of these two types, which correspond to the distinction made by Durkheim between segmental a…
Aspects sociaux de l'industrialisation et de l'urbanisation en Afrique au Sud du Sahara
Diedrich Westermann
Professor Diedrich Westermann, whose international reputation in the field of African studies needs no emphasis here, was intimately associated with the foundation and early development of our Institute. As a former missionary in Togoland and as Director of the Seminar für Orientalische Sprachen in the University of Berlin, he attended the Conference at High Leigh in 1924 when the proposal to found an International Institute for the study of Afri…
International African Institute 1926-51
This year we celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of our foundation, and it may be appropriate to offer a brief survey of the development of the Institute, and of the manner in which, during these years, the aims of its founders have been pursued. Those aims were set out by Lord Lugard, our first Chairman, in an article printed in the first number of Africa (January 1928
Integrative Aspects of the Yako First Fruits Rituals
To Members of the Institute
Members will be interested to know of progress and developments since the reorganization and expansion of the London office which were announced in the Journal for January 1944. In April 1944 a meeting of the Bureau of the Institute was held, when policy was considered and schemes for future work approved. A Consultative Committee was set up under the chairmanship of Sir Harms Vischer, and including French and Belgian members, to advise the offic…
African Worlds: Studies in the Cosmological Ideas and Social Values of African Peoples
The Capacity of the United States to Support Population
Dykes in Central Wales
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Land and Labour on the Cross River: The Economic Organization of a Yako Village, S. Nigeria
A Middle Bronze Age Burial in Cardiganshire
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Excavations on Pen Dinas, Cardiganshire, 1937
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Teaching the Social Studies on the Secondary School Level
Dysgwylfa Fawr Barrow, Cardiganshire: A Food-Vessel and Dug-out Trunk Cremation Burial
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Government in Umor: A Study of Social Change and Problems of Indirect Rule in a Nigerian Village Community
Opening ParagraphThe policy of adapting 'for the purposes of local government the tribal institutions which the native people have evolved themselves, so that the latter may develop in a constitutional manner from their own past' depends for success on more than a general grasp of the outlines of native social organisation. Native standards of value as expressed in individual and collective behaviour, the operation of balances and checks in the s…
Multiple Chambered Tombs in North-Western France
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Yako Marriage
Daryll Forde's article "Yako Marriage" explores the marriage customs of the Yako people of southeastern Nigeria. He details the complexities of their marriage system, including the significance of bridewealth, the role of kinship and lineage in marriage arrangements, and the various forms of marriage practiced. Forde highlights the social and economic implications of these practices, emphasizing the importance of marriage in maintaining social st…
The Capacity of the United States to Support Population
To Members of the Institute
Members will be interested to know of progress and developments since the reorganization and expansion of the London office which were announced in the Journal for January 1944. In April 1944 a meeting of the Bureau of the Institute was held, when policy was considered and schemes for future work approved. A Consultative Committee was set up under the chairmanship of Sir Harms Vischer, and including French and Belgian members, to advise the offic…
Social Development in Africa and the Work of the International African Institute
The Economic Geography of a West African Colony: Review
Bissao Conference
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The Third International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences: Brussels, August 1948
The Integration of Anthropological Studies
The Native Economies of Nigeria: "Being the First Volume of a [Two-Volume] Study of "The Economics of a Tropical Dependency
Integrative Aspects of the Yako First Fruits Rituals
Fulbright Scheme
Ward Organization among the Yakö
Opening ParagraphThe Yakö of the Middle Cross River area of Obubra Division in SE. Nigeria live in five compact villages a few miles apart, each of which was formerly autonomous in its political as well as its ritual organization. They have a common tradition that their forebears all came from Okuni, a settlement some 50 miles away up the Cross River, from which they came overland, for they were not river people, in several parties and over some …
Report of the Administrative Director on the Work of the Institute in 1949
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Ida Caroline Ward
We have, with the deepest regret, to record the death on 10 October 1949 of Professor Ida Ward after a short but severe illness. Most members of the Institute have long been aware of the great services she has rendered to it in the field of linguistic studies. Not only has she made an outstanding academic contribution, of which Professor Diedrich Westermann writes below; she also worked tirelessly for the fuller appreciation in every quarter of t…
International African Institute 1926-51
This year we celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of our foundation, and it may be appropriate to offer a brief survey of the development of the Institute, and of the manner in which, during these years, the aims of its founders have been pursued. Those aims were set out by Lord Lugard, our first Chairman, in an article printed in the first number of Africa (January 1928
Studies in Anthropology
The Administrative Director's Report on the Work and Progress of the Institute from April 1952 to June 1953
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