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050			_aB 5305 _b.A34 2005
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245	0	0	_aAfrican Cultural Knowledge: Themes and Embedded Beliefs
260			_aNairobi: _bMIAS Books, _c2005.
300			_av, 274 p. : _bcol. ill. ; _c21 cm.
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.
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].
651		0	_aAfrica _xSocial life and customs.
651		0	_aAfrica _xReligion.
700	1		_aKirwen, Michael C. _ecompiled and edited
710	2		_aMaryknoll Institute of African Studies. _4.
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