Research Catalog

Title

At the back of the black man's mind, or, Notes on the kingly office in West Africa / by R.E. Dennett.

Author

Dennett, R. E. (Richard Edward), 1857-1921

Publication

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited ; New York : The Macmillan Company, 1906.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Johnson, James, Rev
• Cole, J. A. Abayomi
• Macmillan & Co., publisher
• Macmillan Company, publisher
• Richard Clay and Sons, printer

Description

xv, [1], 288 pages, XXI leaves of plates : illustrations, plans, portraits; 23 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

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

Alternative Title

• At the back of the black man's mind
• Notes on the kingly office in West Africa

Subject

• Ethnology > Africa, French-speaking Equatorial
• Ethnology > Benin
• Ethnology > Congo (Brazzaville)
• Ethnology > Nigeria > Benin (Province)
• Vili (African people)
• Fetishism
• Religion

Note

• With a half-title; publisher's logo on verso of half-title page.
• "Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, Bread Street Hill, E.C., and Bungay, Suffolk."--printer statement, verso of title page; also at foot of page 288: "R. Clay and Sons, Ltd., Bread Street Hill, E.C., and Bungay, Suffolk."
• Includes index.
• Appendix (pages [243]-271): "Extracts from Yoruba heathenism, by the Right Rev. James Johnson, and Astrological geomancy in Africa, by Professor J. A. Abayomi Cole."

Source (note)

• Arthur A. Schomburg;

Provenance (note)

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

Call Number

Sc 572.967-D (Dennett, R. At the back of the black man's mind. 1906)

LCCN

07013004

OCLC

• 786985
• NYPGR786985-B

Author

Dennett, R. E. (Richard Edward), 1857-1921, author.

Title

At the back of the black man's mind, or, Notes on the kingly office in West Africa / by R.E. Dennett.

Imprint

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited ; New York : The Macmillan Company, 1906.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Provenance

Copy in Sc 572.967-D (accession no. B526927) is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

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Added Author

Johnson, James, Rev. Yoruba heathenism.

Cole, J. A. Abayomi. Astrological geomancy in Africa.

Macmillan & Co., publisher.

Macmillan Company, publisher.

Richard Clay and Sons, printer.

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

Research Call Number

Sc 572.967-D (Dennett, R. At the back of the black man's mind. 1906)

QPF (Dennett, R. E. At the back of the black man's mind)