Research Catalog

Title

The ban of the Bori : demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa / by Major A. J. N. Tremearne ; with coloured frontispiece, 60 photographic illustrations and 47 figures in the text.

Author

Tremearne, A. J. N. (Arthur John Newman), 1877-1915

Publication

[London] : Heath, Cranton & Ouseley Ltd., London, E.C., [1914]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Heath Cranton Limited, publisher.
• Riverside Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), printer.

Description

504 pages, [61] leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Ethnology > Africa, West
• Ethnology > Africa, North
• Magic > Africa, North
• Religious dance > Africa, North
• Religious dance > Africa, West
• Dance > Religious aspects
• Dance > Folklore
• Demonology
• Hausa (African people)
• Magic > Africa, West

Note

• With a half-title.
• Dedication on verso of title page.
• "The Riverside Press Limited, Edinburgh."--printer statement, foot of page 497.
• "Extracts from reviews"--pages 499-504.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references ("Notes and references"--pages 427-473) in index.

Source (note)

• Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

• is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Call Number

Sc 572.966-T (Tremearne, A. Ban of the Bori)

LCCN

15005798

OCLC

• 4472174
• NYPGR4472174-B

Author

Tremearne, A. J. N. (Arthur John Newman), 1877-1915, author.

Title

The ban of the Bori : demons and demon-dancing in West and North Africa / by Major A. J. N. Tremearne ; with coloured frontispiece, 60 photographic illustrations and 47 figures in the text.

Publisher

[London] : Heath, Cranton & Ouseley Ltd., London, E.C., [1914]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references ("Notes and references"--pages 427-473) in index.

Provenance

Copy in Sc 572.966-T (accession no. B628680) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Connect to:

Full text available via HathiTrust (Cornell University copy)

Added Author

Heath Cranton Limited, publisher.

Riverside Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), printer.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc 572.966-T (Tremearne, A. Ban of the Bori)

YPC (Tremearne, A. J. N. Ban of the Bori. 1914)