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Secret Societies Religious Cult Groups And Kinship Units Among The West African Yoruba
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Book Synopsis The Serpent and the Rainbow by : Wade Davis
Download or read book The Serpent and the Rainbow written by Wade Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scientific investigation and personal adventure story about zombis and the voudoun culture of Haiti by a Harvard scientist. In April 1982, ethnobotanist Wade Davis arrived in Haiti to investigate two documented cases of zombis—people who had reappeared in Haitian society years after they had been officially declared dead and had been buried. Drawn into a netherworld of rituals and celebrations, Davis penetrated the vodoun mystique deeply enough to place zombification in its proper context within vodoun culture. In the course of his investigation, Davis came to realize that the story of vodoun is the history of Haiti—from the African origins of its people to the successful Haitian independence movement, down to the present day, where vodoun culture is, in effect, the government of Haiti’s countryside. The Serpent and the Rainbow combines anthropological investigation with a remarkable personal adventure to illuminate and finally explain a phenomenon that has long fascinated Americans.
Book Synopsis The Myth of The Negro Past by : Melville Herskovits
Download or read book The Myth of The Negro Past written by Melville Herskovits and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 1990-03-01 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost fifty years ago Melville Herskovits set out to debunk the myth that black Americans have no cultural past. Originally published in 1941, his unprecedented study of black history and culture recovered a rich African heritage in religious and secular life, the language and arts of the Americas.
Author :United States. Department of State. Cultural Planning and Coordination Staff Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :808 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis International Educational Exchange and Related Exchange-of-persons Activities by : United States. Department of State. Cultural Planning and Coordination Staff
Download or read book International Educational Exchange and Related Exchange-of-persons Activities written by United States. Department of State. Cultural Planning and Coordination Staff and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Passage of Darkness written by Wade Davis and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2000-11-09 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1982, Harvard-trained ethnobotanist Wade Davis traveled into the Haitian countryside to research reports of zombies--the infamous living dead of Haitian folklore. A report by a team of physicians of a verifiable case of zombification led him to try to obtain the poison associated with the process and examine it for potential medical use. Interdisciplinary in nature, this study reveals a network of power relations reaching all levels of Haitian political life. It sheds light on recent Haitian political history, including the meteoric rise under Duvalier of the Tonton Macoute. By explaining zombification as a rational process within the context of traditional Vodoun society, Davis demystifies one of the most exploited of folk beliefs, one that has been used to denigrate an entire people and their religion.
Book Synopsis Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time by : Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Download or read book Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time written by Kathleen Bickford Berzock and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Author :United States. Department of State. Office of Information and Educational Exchange Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :166 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Directory of Organizations in the United States Concerned with Africa by : United States. Department of State. Office of Information and Educational Exchange
Download or read book Directory of Organizations in the United States Concerned with Africa written by United States. Department of State. Office of Information and Educational Exchange and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Slavery and Medicine by : Katherine Bankole
Download or read book Slavery and Medicine written by Katherine Bankole and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study re-evaluates the field known as Negro/Slave Medicine, which has traditionally focused on the efforts of slaveowners to provide medical care for their slaves, addressing the slaves' proactive management of medical care; brutality as a cause of the constant need for medical attention; and the health risks posed by arduous agricultural labor. This groundbreaking study offers insight into the health problems facing enslaved people, their attempts to deal with the causes and effects of illness and injury, and the slave owners' attitudes toward the medical treatment of slaves. The appendices present valuable data on the medical treatment of enslaved African Americans from the Touro Infirmary Archives that have never before been published.
Book Synopsis Bibliography of Nigeria by : Nduntuei O. Ita
Download or read book Bibliography of Nigeria written by Nduntuei O. Ita and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-23 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1971, this major bibliography devoted to Africa’s most populous country – Nigeria – is therefore a timely contribution which must be welcomed by all. The Bibliography of Nigeria contains over 5,400 entries in archaeology, all branches of anthropology, linguistic and relevant historical and sociological studies. Many of the entries carry indicative or informative annotations which have greatly enhanced the usefulness of the work. The history and culture of Africa constitutes a rich area of study and research which is attracting an ever-increasing number of scholars the world over. The new impetus which African studies is receiving in the major centre of learning today has added urgency to the long-neglected problem of bibliographical control of the vast literature. The dearth of bibliographies in the field of African studies has been a main source of frustration to all those working in this area. The book is divided into two parts: part one deals with Nigeria as a whole, and lists general works or those concerned with several regions or several ethnic groups. Part two is devoted to the various ethnic groups. An analytical table of contents, a comprehensive ethnic index, an author index and an index of Islamic studies, together with generous cross-referencing, ensure ready and easy location of individual entries.
Download or read book City of 201 Gods written by Jacob Olupona and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-12-13 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a study that challenges familiar Western modes of thought, Jacob K. Olupona focuses on one of the most important religious centers in Africa and in the world: the Yorùbá city of Ilé-Ifè in southwest Nigeria. The spread of Yorùbá traditions in the African diaspora has come to define the cultural identity of millions of black and white people in Brazil, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, and the United States. Seen through the eyes of a native, this first comprehensive study of the spiritual and cultural center of the Yorùbá religion tells how the city went from great prominence to near obliteration and then rose again as a contemporary city of gods. Throughout, Olupona corroborates the indispensable linkages between religion, cosmology, migration, and kinship as espoused in the power of royal lineages, hegemonic state structure, gender, and the Yorùbá sense of place, offering the fullest portrait to date of this sacred African city.
Book Synopsis The Growth of Islam Among the Yoruba, 1841-1908 by : T. G. O. Gbadamosi
Download or read book The Growth of Islam Among the Yoruba, 1841-1908 written by T. G. O. Gbadamosi and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Department of State. Cultural Planning and Coordination Staff Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :280 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis International Educational Exchange and Related Exchange-of-persons Activities: Ghana, British Togoland, French Togoland, and Nigeria by : United States. Department of State. Cultural Planning and Coordination Staff
Download or read book International Educational Exchange and Related Exchange-of-persons Activities: Ghana, British Togoland, French Togoland, and Nigeria written by United States. Department of State. Cultural Planning and Coordination Staff and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations Submitted to the Graduate School of Northwestern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Education by : Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Graduate School
Download or read book Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations Submitted to the Graduate School of Northwestern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Education written by Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Graduate School and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations Submitted to the Graduate School of Northwestern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Education by : Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Graduate School
Download or read book Summaries of Doctoral Dissertations Submitted to the Graduate School of Northwestern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Education written by Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Graduate School and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis African Religious Groups and Beliefs by : Simon Ottenberg
Download or read book African Religious Groups and Beliefs written by Simon Ottenberg and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Historical Study of the Ascendant Role of Bàtá Drumming in Cuban Òrìṣà Worship by : Michael David Marcuzzi
Download or read book A Historical Study of the Ascendant Role of Bàtá Drumming in Cuban Òrìṣà Worship written by Michael David Marcuzzi and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Summaries of Ph. D. Dissertations Submitted to the Graduate School of Northwestern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy by : Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Graduate School
Download or read book Summaries of Ph. D. Dissertations Submitted to the Graduate School of Northwestern University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy written by Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Graduate School and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Religion of the Ifugaos by : Roy Franklin Barton
Download or read book The Religion of the Ifugaos written by Roy Franklin Barton and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
