Author: Melville Jean Herskovits
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810116504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
This new edition, published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding by Melville Herskovits of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, brings back into print one of the classics in scholarly analysis and translation, written by one of the cultural anthropology. When this book was first published in 1958, Melville luminaries of American Herskovits, with his wife and collaborator, Frances, had spent over Twenty years studying the social networks, language, and oral traditions of the peoples of West Africa and their descendants in the New World. Dahomey, the major site of their African work, is in the country now known as the Republic of Benin. This volume, had two goals: in its collection of 155 narratives, to provide basic texts of the analytical side, to provide a general theory of mythology using new oral narratives and looking at their tradition culminating in a survey of different prevailing Theories of myth. The result is a wide-ranging collection, culled from an entire narrative tradition, that remains unique among anthropological publications.
Dahomean Narrative
Author: Melville Jean Herskovits
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810116504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
This new edition, published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding by Melville Herskovits of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, brings back into print one of the classics in scholarly analysis and translation, written by one of the cultural anthropology. When this book was first published in 1958, Melville luminaries of American Herskovits, with his wife and collaborator, Frances, had spent over Twenty years studying the social networks, language, and oral traditions of the peoples of West Africa and their descendants in the New World. Dahomey, the major site of their African work, is in the country now known as the Republic of Benin. This volume, had two goals: in its collection of 155 narratives, to provide basic texts of the analytical side, to provide a general theory of mythology using new oral narratives and looking at their tradition culminating in a survey of different prevailing Theories of myth. The result is a wide-ranging collection, culled from an entire narrative tradition, that remains unique among anthropological publications.
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
ISBN: 9780810116504
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
This new edition, published on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding by Melville Herskovits of the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, brings back into print one of the classics in scholarly analysis and translation, written by one of the cultural anthropology. When this book was first published in 1958, Melville luminaries of American Herskovits, with his wife and collaborator, Frances, had spent over Twenty years studying the social networks, language, and oral traditions of the peoples of West Africa and their descendants in the New World. Dahomey, the major site of their African work, is in the country now known as the Republic of Benin. This volume, had two goals: in its collection of 155 narratives, to provide basic texts of the analytical side, to provide a general theory of mythology using new oral narratives and looking at their tradition culminating in a survey of different prevailing Theories of myth. The result is a wide-ranging collection, culled from an entire narrative tradition, that remains unique among anthropological publications.
Bibliography of Melville J. Herskovits
Author: Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.). Library
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Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Languages : en
Pages : 80
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The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Religious Books, 1876-1982
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
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Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Divination and Magic
Author: Jesper Sørensen
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900444758X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Divination and Magic ten leading scholars of religion provide up-to-date investigations into these classic domains from historical, anthropological, cognitive, philosophical and theoretical perspectives.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900444758X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
In Theoretical and Empirical Investigations of Divination and Magic ten leading scholars of religion provide up-to-date investigations into these classic domains from historical, anthropological, cognitive, philosophical and theoretical perspectives.
Catalogue of the Library of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University: Hedi to Hum
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Catalogue: Authors
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Publisher:
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Catalogue
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 602
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Dictionary Catalog of the Research Libraries of the New York Public Library, 1911-1971
Author: New York Public Library. Research Libraries
Publisher:
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Library catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Dictionary Catalogue of the Library of the Provincial Archives of British Columbia, Victoria
Author: Provincial Archives of British Columbia. Library
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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Publisher:
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Category : British Columbia
Languages : en
Pages : 680
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