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Great discount items: African Tribal Books
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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 mov ...
Best-seller #: 2
We Are the Washitaw (The Washitaw Doctrine)
Manufacturer: Indigenous Concepts
Concise booklet answering the most frequently asked questions concern the Ancient Ones, the pre-historic pyramid/moundbuilding ancestors of the Washitaw Muurs in North America. The oldest communities and earthen monuments have been found in Louisiana and the ...
Best-seller #: 3
A Dictionary of African Mythology: The Mythmaker as Storyteller
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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In this marvelous collection of hundreds of fascinating, mysterious, and revealing tales, Harold Scheub captures the immense sweep and diversity of African mythology.
Scheub offers an unprecedented collection of 400 stories, arranged alphabetica ...
Best-seller #: 4
African Traditional Religion in Malawi: The Case of the Bimbi Cult (Kachere Monograph,)
Manufacturer: Kachere Series
Best-seller #: 5
San Spirituality: Roots, Expression, and Social Consequences (The African Archaeology Series)
Manufacturer: AltaMira Press
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At the intersection between western culture and Africa, we find the San people of the Kalahari desert. Once called Bushmen, the San have survived many characterizations-from pre-human animals by the early European colonials, to aboriginal conservationists in ...
Best-seller #: 6
African American Folk Healing
Manufacturer: NYU Press
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”Persuasively argued...A fascinating study that makes a real contribution to discussions of health, wellness and faith in America.”
—Publishers Weekly
"An exploration of the ...
Best-seller #: 7
Revenge of the Pequots: How a Small Native American Tribe Created the World's Most Profitable Casino
Manufacturer: Bison Books
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The Mashantucket Pequots have had a long and proud history, enduring for centuries even after colonists and historians believed them to have been exterminated by the British in 1637. By the early 1970s, however, the legacy of their generations rested on ...
Best-seller #: 8
Death and the Invisible Powers: The World of Kongo Belief
Manufacturer: Indiana University Press
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Best-seller #: 9
Insight and Artistry in African Divination
Manufacturer: Smithsonian
Among the peoples of Central and West Africa, artifacts such as sculptures, trays, baskets, animal horns, rubbing devices, and slit-drums are essential to the efficacy of divination rituals, attempts by individuals, families, or communities to discern throug ...
Best-seller #: 10
Drink, Power, and Cultural Change: A Social History of Alcohol in Ghana, c. 1800 to Recent Times (Social History of Africa Series)
Manufacturer: Heinemann
Drink, Power, and Cultural Change presents a social history of alcohol in southern Ghana over the past century and a half and highlights its centrality in the culture of power. Alcohol could bridge the gap between the spiritual and living worlds, as the bles ...
