The Lele of the Kasai - 1

This first volume is a compilation of numerous essays by Douglas on the Lele in the Belgian Congo covering a fifteen year period.

There are early indications of Douglas's cultural imagination and written expression that were to make her works accessible and relevant to a western readership of non-anthropologists.

The intellectural tools and examples she gained from Africanist ethnography continue to serve her explorations of European and American society.