Book Review

Africa is said to offer a fruitful field for joint consideration of economic-geographic and ethnic factors. A number of subjects reflecting the relationship between the two aspects are proposed for investigation: the impact of environment factors, particularly resource use, on the process of formation of ethnic communities; the impact of traditional economic activities on ethnic processes; the relationship between ethnic territories and economic regions (some ethnic communities are associated with particular types of economic activities); the relationship between settlement types and urbanization and ethnic processes. A number of economic-geographic techniques, such as the cartographic method and the statistical method, may be applied to ethnogeographic problems.