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Title: | Social Change on the Kru Coast of Liberia |
Author: | Fraenlel, Merran |
Year: | 1966 |
Periodical: | Africa: Journal of the International African Institute |
Volume: | 36 |
Issue: | 2 |
Period: | April |
Pages: | 154-172 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Liberia |
Subjects: | social change urban society Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) |
External links: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/1158202 https://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pao:&rft_dat=xri:pao:article:4011-1966-036-00-000011 |
Abstract: | Little has been published on the history and the social structure of the Kru people of Liberia. The first part of this article is a contribution towards filling this gap. The second part concerns socio-economic change in one Kru town, Grand Cess, during the present century, and in particular its fission into two geographically and culturally distinct sections: the traditional town and the modern Municipality. The outline of the development of Grand Cess, of present interrelationships between its two main sections, and of the status of each vis-à-vis the central government, serves as an illustration of the Republic's unusual system of local administration. The account is based on three weeks'stay in Grand Cess in 1958, and on discussions with Kru people over a period of a year in Monrovia(1958-59). Notes; French summary. |