| Abstract: | The symposium was financed by the Canada Council and the Canadian International Development Agency and took place under the hostage of the University of Western Ontario, London, from May 7-9, 1971. Focussing on the relationship between different aspects of social change in Sierra Leone, the most persistently recurring themes in the discussion were the fluidity of so-called 'tribal' identities, the adaptability of local political and social institutions in the face of exogenous change, and the constraints which limited the asymetry of power relations between central and local institutions. The result of a forum, organized by J.Cartwright, Milton Harvey, R. Jordan, K. Rothman was a fairly severe criticism of a number of concepts, and questioning of conceptual frameworks for research. Suggested was that considerable attention should be paid to the extent to which social changes in the colonial and post-colonial era have produced a consolidation of identities, and to the effect of structures through which power is exercised in the control of behaviour. |
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