Abstract: | To mark the fortieth anniversary of the founding of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute in 1937, the December 1977 number of African Social Research is devoted to a history of the Institute's development from its conception until 1970, when it became an integral part of the University of Zambia and its name was changed to the Institute for African Studies. After Editorial notes and a preface by Mubanga E. Kashoki, the Institute's history is dealt with in the following sections: Prologue by H.J. Simons, p. 259-273; The Rhodes-Living-stone Institute: an Experiment in Research, 1933-38, by Audrey Richards, p. 275-278; The First Three Years, 1938-41, by Monica Wilson, p. 279-283; The Institute under Max Gluckman, 1942-47, by Elizabeth Colson, p. 285-295; From Livingstone to Lusaka, 1948-51, by Elizabeth Colson, p. 297-307; The Shadow of Federation, 1952-55, by J. Clyde Mitchell, p. 309-318; From Lusaka to Salisbury, 1956-60, by Henry Fosbrooke, p. 319-325; Interregna, 1955-56 and 1960-62, by C.M.N. White, p. 327-329; The Years of Transition, 1963-67, by Alastair Heron, p. 331-334; Brief but Black Authority, 1968-70, by P.O. Nsugbe, p. 335-340. Short biographies of former Directors of the Institute, p. 341-344. |