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African Life and Customs by Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912 is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is African Life and Customs about?

In African Life and Customs,Blydenexamined the culture of "pure" Africans-- those untouched by European and Asiatic influences. He identified the family as the basic unit in African society and polygamy as the foundation of African families. He described African social systems as cooperative; everyone worked for each other. No one went without work, food, or clothing.Blydenchallenged white racial theorists who held Africans were inferior and whose arguments supported their preconceived ideas. He assumed Africans to be "distinct" rather than inferior, and he analyzed African culture within the context of African social experiences.

Author

Blyden, Edward Wilmot, 1832-1912

Publisher

Baltimore: Black Classic Press

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9780933121430

Subjects

History, Sociology, Anthropology