African worlds : studies in the cosmological ideas and social values of African peoples
- Responsibility
- Daryll Forde (editor) ; new introduction by Wendy James.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Imprint
- Hamburg : Lit ; Oxford : James Currey with the IAI, 1999.
- Physical description
- xxx, xvii, 243 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Series
- Classics in African anthropology.
Description
Creators/Contributors
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
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- Introduction, Daryll Forde
- the L'ele of Kasai, Mary Douglas
- the Abaluyia of Kavirondo (Kenya), Gunter Wagner
- the Lovedu of the Transvaal, J.D. & E.J. Krige
- the Dogon of the French Sudan, Marcel Griaule & Germaine Dieterlen
- the Mende in Sierra Leone, Kenneth Little
- the Shilluk of the Upper Nile, Godfrey Lienhardt
- the kingdom of Rwanda, J.J. Maquet
- the Ashanti of the Gold Coast. K.A. Busia
- the Fon of Dahomey, P. Mercier.
- (source: Nielsen Book Data)
- Publisher's summary
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This series of "Classics in African Anthropology" is primarily drawn from a distinct family of texts which dominated the academic analysis of society in mid-20th century Africa. The texts are significant yet often neglected, but have stood the test of time, according to the editors.
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Bibliographic information
- Reprint/reissue date
- 1999
- Original date
- 1954
- Series
- Classics in African anthropology
- Note
- "First published by Oxford University Press for the International African Institute 1954."
- ISBN
- 0852552866
- 0852552815 (pbk.)
- 3825830861 (pbk., Germany)
- 3825835677 (cased, Germany)
- 9780852552865
- 9780852552810 (pbk.)
- 9783825830861 (pbk., Germany)
- 9783825835675 (cased, Germany)
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