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The Furarticle 1948 • Beaton, Arthur Charles
Fur • Africa > Eastern Africa
This overview of traditional Fur culture and society covers such topics as historical development, relations with neighboring ethnic groups, settlement pattern, ecology, economic activities, gender-based division of labor, puberty rites, and religiou...Youth organisation among the Furarticle 1941 • Beaton, Arthur Charles
Fur • Africa > Eastern Africa
This is a study of youth organizations in traditional Fur society. It begins by noting that the Fur lacked age grades of the kinds found in many parts of Eastern Africa and beyond. Yet, the Fur recognized the centrality of age for understanding the c...