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Agent's Absence
Agent’s Absence
American Colonization Society
Americo-Liberian elite
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Book Man
Bushrod Island
Cap Palmas
Cape Mesurado
Capitol Building
caste systems Africa
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Clanship
Cooper Farm
Elementary Families
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ethnic relations West Africa
Girl Friend
Head Wife
Home Town
Ivory Coast
kinship structures Liberia
Liberian Coast
Liberian Frontier Force
Liberian social hierarchy
lineage
Married Woman
Montserrado County
Namoos
Night Watchmen
Protestant Episcopal Church
social mobility Africa
social organization
social structure
Tale
Tallensi
Tribal Court
Tribal Customary Law
urban stratification Monrovia
Urban Tribal
Volta
Voluntary Associations
West Germany
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138594302
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 29 Apr 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Originally published in 1964, this book analyses the unique type of social stratification which is more akin to a social class system in Monrovia, Liberia's capital. Liberia, established in 1847 has no history of rule by a colonial power and is of perculiar sociological interest, having been governed until the first half of the twentieth century by a minority group of immigrants from America and their descendants. The bulk of the population, however, is made up of members of about 20 tribes, between whom and the American descendants a caste-like social system has developed.
