MELLAND, Frank H. “In Witch-Bound Africa” [Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1967]

MELLAND, Frank H. In Witch-Bound Africa: An Account of the Primitive Kaonde Tribe and Their Beliefs.

London: Frank Cass & Co. Ltd., 1967. Reprint edition. 8.75" x 6", 316pp with 47 photographs/drawings and 3 maps. Original yellow pictorial dust jacket over red cloth. Jacket with light edge wear. Cloth sound and pages clean. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.

Originally published earlier in the twentieth century, this ethnographic study documents Kaonde religious practices, rituals, and social structures as observed by Melland during the colonial period. The work reflects mid-century anthropological approaches shaped by imperial contexts, situating it firmly within the interwar-to-postwar continuum of British African studies. Collectible for its detailed photographic documentation and as a representative example of period ethnography, later reissued by Frank Cass for scholarly and institutional audiences.