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008 060209s2005 ke a b 000 0 eng
010 _a2006306154
020 _a9966712607
020 _a9789966712608
035 _a(OCoLC)64667014
040 _aDLC
_cDLC
_dMNY
_dBTCTA
_dEXN
042 _alcode
043 _af------
049 _aEXNs
050 0 0 _aB 5305
_b.A34 2011
082 0 4 _a306.096
_222
245 0 0 _aAfrican cultural knowledge :
_bthemes and embedded beliefs /
_ccompiled and edited by Michael C. Kirwen.
250 _arevised edition.
260 _aNairobi :
_bMIAS Books,
_c2011.
300 _av, 274 p. :
_bcol. ill. ;
_c21 cm.
500 _aLC copy signed by compiler.
_5DLC.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-274)
505 0 _aCreator God -- Ancestors -- Living dead -- Nominal reincarnation -- African lineage -- Leadership -- Adulthood and elderhood -- Bridewealth -- Marriage -- Polygyny -- Herbalist -- Diviner -- Witch -- Witchcraft -- Death -- Appendix A. Beliefs summarized in each chapter -- Appendix B. Respondents by nationality and ethnic groups -- Appendix C. Selected Bibliography.
520 _a"Based on field research data collected and analyzed over the past seventeen years, the Maryknoll Institute of African Studies has categorized cultural knowledge into fifteen themes and thirty-five domains. The themes are the major values, symbols and ideas that bring wholeness and coherence to a culture. The themes explain the nature of life, the nature of creation, the nature of evil, etc. Underneath and within these themes are thirty-five cultural domains, that is, specific activities, rituals, attitudes and happenings that make up the ordinary events in the lives of human beings, from birth to death and beyond ... The book is divided into fifteen chapters, one for each foundational theme"--Intro., p. [1]
650 0 _aPhilosophy, African.
_942810
650 0 _aMythology, African.
_942811
650 0 _aEthnoscience
_zAfrica.
_942812
650 0 _aKnowledge, Sociology of
_zAfrica.
_942813
651 0 _aAfrica
_xReligion.
_942814
651 0 _aAfrica
_xSocial life and customs.
_942815
700 1 _aKirwen, Michael C.
_942816
942 _2lcc
_cBOOK
_hB 5305
_i.A34 2011
999 _c11954
_d11954