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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 November 2008
The article by Victor Gerdes on ‘Precursors of Modern Social Security in Indigenous African Institutions’ in this Journal, Vol. XIII, No. 2, June 1975, is timely in raising the question of the interrelationship between ‘modern’ social security schemes, implanted comparatively recently in most African countries, and their traditional precursors. The description of a range of indigenous Ethiopian institutions which, to some extent at least, perform the functions of social security schemes, is a valuable addition to the published material in this field.
page 514 note 1 See, for example, Fosbrooke, H. A., ‘Social Security as a Felt Want in East and Central Africa’, in Bulletin of the I.S.S.A. (Geneva), XIII, 6, 06 1960, pp. 279–89Google Scholar.
page 514 note 2 See, for example, George, V., Social Security and Society (London, 1973), ch. IGoogle Scholar; and Rhodes, G., Public Sector Pensions (London, 1965)Google Scholar.
page 515 note 1 See, for example, Sahlins, M., Stone Age Economnics (Chicago, 1972), pp. 185–230Google Scholar, for a discussion of economic reciprocity.