African Systems of Thought (International African Institute S.) Studies Presented and Discussed at the Third International African Seminar in Salisbury, December 1960

From the working library of Hans-Joachim Koloss, curator of the African department of the Berlin Ethnography Museum. Fresh and clean in good condition with few underlinings in pencil. Aus der Arbeitsbibliothek von Hans-Joachim Koloss, Kurator der Afrika-Abteilung des Museums f�r V�lkerkunde Berlin. Frisch und sauber in guter Erhaltung mit wenigen Unterstreichungen in Bleistift. ( Benin ) CONTENTS - List of Observers at the Seminar - PREFACE by Professor M. Fortes and Madame G. Dieterlen - Part One. General Review of the Discussions - I. Indigenous Religious Systems - II. Ritual and Symbolism - III. Ancestor Worship - IV. Witchcraft and Sorcery - V. Islam in Africa - VI. Christianity in Africa - VIL Syst�s de Connaissance - Part Two. Special Studies - I. DR. ROBERT F. GRAY. University of Illinois - Some Parallels in Sonjo and Christian Mythology - IL DR. P. T. W. BAXTER. University College of Ghana - Repetition in Certain Boran Ceremonies - III. DR. V. W. TURNER. University of Manchester - Ritual Symbolism, Morality and Social Structure among the Ndembu - IV. DR. R. E. BRADBURY. University College, Ibadan - Father and Senior Son in Edo Mortuary Ritual - V. PROFESSOR MEYER FORTES. University of Cambridge - La Coh�on familiale chez les Yakoma - VIL DR. L. MOLET. Centre ORSTOM, Bangui - Kanda et Sangere, g�es Yakoma - VIII. REV. PERE G. HULSTAERT. Mission Catholique, Coquilhatville - La sorcellerie chez les Mongo - IX. PROFESSOR M. G. MARWICK. University of the ICitwatersrand - Some Problems in the Sociology of Sorcery and Witchcraft - X. PROFESSOR J. CLYDE MIJCHELL. University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland - The Meaning in Misfortune for Urban Africans - XL DR. I. M. LEWIS. University of Glasgow - Shaikhs and Warriors in Somaliland - XII. M. A. DOUTRELOUX. Institut pour la Recherche Scientifique en Afrique Centrale - Proph�sme et culture - XIII. DR. B. A. PAUW. - Missionary of the Dutch Reformed Church; Institute of Social and Economic Research, Rhodes University - Patterns of Christianization among the Tswana and the Xhosa-speaking Peoples - XIV. DR. DERRICK J. STENNING. East African Institute of Social Research - Salvation in Ankole - XV. DR. B. SUNDKLER. Bishop in Bukoba, Tanganyika - Chief and Prophet in Zululand and Swaziland - XVI. M. J. CAPRON. Centre IF AN, Ouagadougou - Univers religieux et coh�on interne dans les communaut�villageoises Bwa traditionnelles - XVII. MADAME GERMAINE DIETERLEN. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Paris - L�Initiation chez les pasteurs peul (Afrique Occidentale) - XVIII. MADAME ANNIE LEBEUF. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris - Le Syst� classificatoire des Fali (Nord-Cameroun) - XIX. DR. M. GELFAND. Physician, Salisbury Native Hospital - The Mhondoro Cult of the Shona-speaking People of Southern Rhodesia - XX. M. B. HOLAS. Centre des Science Humaines, Abidjan - Le Bois, mati� premi� des accessoires ceremoniels en C�d�ivoire - XXL DR. L. V. THOMAS. Universit�e Dakar - Br� esquisse sur la pens�osmologique du Diola - INDEX ISBN 9780197241585