L'agonie d'une culture: les Nzabi de la République populaire du Congo

A culture on the wane: the Nzabi in the Congo People's Republic.- Presentation of a recent thesis on the Njabi, a forest people on the borders of Gabon and Congo, with a precolonial tradition of iron-working and trade. This work marks to a large extent a welcome return to descriptive anthropology, in contrast to the more recent trend toward sweeping, if somewhat monist, theorization.