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African worlds : studies in the cosmological ideas and social values of African peoples
- Title
- African worlds : studies in the cosmological ideas and social values of African peoples / Daryll Forde (editor) ; new introduction by Wendy James.
- Publication
- Hamburg : Lit ; Oxford : James Currey with the IAI, 1999.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xxx, xvii, 243 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
- Series Statement
- Classics in African anthropology
- Subject
- Note
- "First published by Oxford University Press for the International African Institute 1954."
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Daryll Forde -- The Lele of Kasai / Mary Douglas -- The Abaluyia of Kavirondo (Kenya) / Gunter Wagner -- The Lovedu of the Transvaal /J.D. Krige -- The Dogon of the French Sudan / Marcel Griaule -- The Mende in Sierra Leone / Kenneth Little -- The Shilluk of Ruanda / Godfrey Lienhardt -- The kingdom of Ruanda / J.J. Maquet -- The Ashanti of the Gold Coast / K.A. Busia -- The Fon of Dahomey / P. Mercier.
- Call Number
- Sc D 00-610
- ISBN
- 0852552866
- 0852552815 (pbk.)
- 3825830861 (pbk., Germany)
- 3825835677 (cased, Germany)
- OCLC
- 40683108
- Title
- African worlds : studies in the cosmological ideas and social values of African peoples / Daryll Forde (editor) ; new introduction by Wendy James.
- Imprint
- Hamburg : Lit ; Oxford : James Currey with the IAI, 1999.
- Edition
- 2nd ed.
- Series
- Classics in African anthropology
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Forde, Daryll, 1902-1973.James, Wendy.International African Institute.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 00-610