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1953  The Social Organization and Economy of Kagoro. London: Colonial Social Science Research Council. 110p. Reissued by the Department of Sociology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, as Occasional Paper no. 4, 1975.

 

1953 The Social Structure of the Northern Kadara. London: Colonial Social Science Research Council. 64p. Reissued by the Department of Sociology, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria, as Occasional Paper no. 1, 1973.

1955  A Framework for Caribbean Studies. Mona, Kingston, Jamaica: Extra, Mural Dept., University College of the West Indies. 70p. Reprinted in The Plural Society in the British West Indies. p. 18,74. Partially reprinted as "Afro American research: a critique," in West Indian Perspectives: Work and Family Life. Lambros Comitas and David Lowenthal, eds. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1973. p. 273-284.

1955  The Economy of Hausa Communities of Zaria: A Report to the Colonial Social Science Research Council. London: H.M.S.O. for the Colonial Office. 261p. (Colonial research studies, no. 16). Reprinted by Johnson Reprint Corporation in 1961.

1956  A Report on Labour Supply in Rural Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica: Government Printer. 167p. Partially reprinted as "Patterns of rural labour," in West Indian Perspectives: Work and Family Life. Lambros Comitas and David Lowenthal, eds. Garden City, NY: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1973. p.67-93.

1957  (With G. J. Kruijer). A Sociological Manual for Extension Workers in the Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica: Extra-Mural Dept., University College of the West Indies. 255p. (Caribbean Affairs Series).

1960  (With R. Augier and R. M. Nettleford). The Ras Tafari Movement in Kingston, Jamaica. Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University College of the West Indies, 1960. 54p. Reprinted in 1968, and in Caribbean Quarterly, vol. 13, no. 3, (September 1967), pp. 3-29; and vol. 13, no. 4 (December 1967), pp. 3-14.

1960  Government in Zazzau, 1800-1950. London: Oxford University Press for the International African Institute. 371p. (Amaury Talbot Book Prize).  Reprinted in 1964 and 1970.

1962  Kinship and Community in Carriacou. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. 347p. (Caribbean series, no. 5).

1962  West Indian Family Structure. Seattle: University of Washington Press. 311p. (American Ethnological Society monographs, no. 36).

1963  Dark Puritan. Kingston, Jamaica: Dept. of Extra-Mural Studies, University of the West Indies. 139p.

1965  Stratification in Grenada. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 271 p.

1965  The Plural Society in the British West Indies. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 359p. Reprinted in 1974.

1969  (ed with Leo Kuper) Pluralism in Africa. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 546p. Reprinted in 1972.

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1974  Corporations and Society: The Social Anthropology of Collective Action. London: George Duckworth. 383p. Reprinted by Aldine in 1975.

1977 Local Government at Hadejia. Zaria, Nigeria: Department of Local Government Studies, Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University. 76p.

1978  The Affairs of Daura. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press. 532p.

1981  (With M. Tukur and A. Y. Aliyu). Development and Organisation of the Fulani Chiefdom of Kaura Namoda, 1809-1903. Zaria, Nigeria: Institute of Administration, Ahmadu Bello University and Gaskiya Corp. 41 p.

 

1984  Culture, Race and Class in the Commonwealth Caribbean. Kingston, Jamaica: Dept. of Extra-Mural Studies, University of the West Indies. 163p. Reprinted in 1990.

1989 Poverty in Jamaica. Mona, Kingston, Jamaica: Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of the West Indies. 167p.

1991  Pluralism, Politics and Ideology in the Creole Caribbean. New York: Research Institute for the Study of Man, (Vera Rubin Caribbean series, No.1), 80p.

1997  Government in Kano, 1350-1950.Boulder, Co.  Westview Press,. 602 p.

 

1998  The Study of Social Structure. New York, Research Institute for the Study of Man. 261 p.

2009  (with L. Comitas) Education and Society in the Creole Caribbean. New York, CIFAS. 466 p.