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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Anthropology and Africa: Beginnings | |
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| The Idea of Social Evolution and the Colonial Project | |
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| Anthropology Professionalizes: New Standards of Evidence and New Criteria of Classification | |
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| The Middle Colonial Period, 1920-40 | |
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| Early Days: American and French Anthropologists in Africa | |
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| The Colonial Context and British Social Anthropology: The 1920s and 1930s | |
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| Professional Fieldwork and the Era of Malinowski | |
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| The Later Colonial Period to 1960 | |
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| The 1940s and 1950s: Radcliffe-Brown, Evans-Pritchard, and Fortes | |
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| Migration and Urban Life: Transformable Identities | |
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| Portable Knowledge and Mutable Connections | |
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| From "Tribe" to Town: Shifts of Scope and Method | |
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| The City as a Totality | |
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| The Wilsons and the Mayers: The "Detribalization" and "Conservatism" Question | |
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| Urban Africans as Workers | |
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| Why Two Paradigms, "Tribe" and "Town"? | |
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| Networks, Associations, and Classes | |
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| African Independence and Anthropological Specialization, 1960-90 | |
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| Introduction: Academia Questions Itself, or, the Snake Bites Its Own Tail | |
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| Dated Compendia and Subsequent Waves of Innovation | |
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| Topics and Categories | |
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| Balandier and the French Marxists | |
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| Economy, Kinship, and Gender | |
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| French Structuralism and Other Approaches to Modes of Thought, Religion, and the Symbolic Order | |
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| Politics, Pluralism, and Law | |
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| Past and Future: Conclusion and Recapitulation | |
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| References Cited | |
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| Author Index | |
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| Subject Index | |