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Great discount items: African Tribal Books
NOTE: Items are ordered by today's best selling (Monday, September 08th, 2008)
Best-seller #: 1
Tongnaab: The History of a West African God
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
For many Africanist historians, traditional religion is simply a starting point for measuring the historic impact of Christianity and Islam. In Tongnaab, Jean Allman and John Parker challenge the distinction between tradition and modernity by tracing the movem ...
Best-seller #: 2
Bushman Shaman: Awakening the Spirit through Ecstatic Dance
Manufacturer: Destiny Books
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The author’s journey to becoming a Bushman shaman and healer and how this tradition relates to shamanic practices around the world
• Explores the Bushmen’s ecstatic shaking and dancing practices
• Written by th ...
Best-seller #: 3
Slave Religion: The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South (Galaxy Books)
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. In a new chapter in this anniversary edition, author Albert J. Raboteau reflects upon the origins of the book, the reactio ...
Best-seller #: 4
Sixteen Cowries
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Yoruba texts and English translations of a divination system that originated in Nigeria and is widely practiced today by male and female diviners in the diaspora. A landmark edition ...
Best-seller #: 5
Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Manufacturer: Cambridge University Press
Catherine Boone examines political regionalism in Africa and how it affects forms of government, and prospects for democracy and development. Boone's study is set within the context of larger theories of political development in agrarian societies. It features ...
Best-seller #: 6
The Diloggun: The Orishas, Proverbs, Sacrifices, and Prohibitions of Cuban Santeria
Manufacturer: Destiny Books
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The first book on Santería’s holiest divination system to thoroughly explore each family of odu and how their actions and reactions affect the spiritual development of the client.
• Includes the major considerations for sacr ...
Best-seller #: 7
The Tribal Arts of Africa
Manufacturer: Thames & Hudson
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The marvelous achievements of black African artists over thousands of years are revealed and superbly portrayed in this book. The earliest pieces date from the beginning of the first millennium, the most recent from the early twentieth century before the comme ...
Best-seller #: 8
Theology Brewed in an African Pot
Manufacturer: Orbis
Best-seller #: 9
Experiencing Ritual: A New Interpretation of African Healing (Contemporary Ethnography)
Manufacturer: University of Pennsylvania Press
Experiencing Ritual is Edith Turner's account of how she sighted a spirit form while participating in the Ihamba ritual of the Ndembu. Through her analysis, she presents a view not common in anthropological writings--the view of millions of Africans- ...
Best-seller #: 10
The Hero with an African Face: Mythic Wisdom of Traditional Africa
Manufacturer: Bantam
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In this remarkable book, Clyde Ford restores to us the lost treasure of African mythology, bringing to life the ancient tales and showing why they matter so much to us today.
African myths convey the perennial wisdom of humanity: the creation of the wor ...
