02334aam a2200397 a 4500 64667014 AUA.1 20180404152316.0 060209s2005 ke a b 000 0 eng 2006306154 9966712607 9789966712608 (OCoLC)64667014 DLC DLC MNY BTCTA EXN lcode f------ EXNs B 5305 .A34 2011 306.096 22 African cultural knowledge : themes and embedded beliefs / compiled and edited by Michael C. Kirwen. revised edition. Nairobi : MIAS Books, 2011. v, 274 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm. LC copy signed by compiler. DLC. Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-274) Creator 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. "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] Philosophy, African. 42810 Mythology, African. 42811 Ethnoscience Africa. 42812 Knowledge, Sociology of Africa. 42813 Africa Religion. 42814 Africa Social life and customs. 42815 Kirwen, Michael C. 42816 lcc BOOK B 5305 .A34 2011 11954 11954 0 0 lcc 0 0 Books AUA.1 AUA.1 GS 2014-03-20 Bought by JTL 10.00 AUA014740 13 1 B 5305 .A34 2011 AUA014740 2021-08-08 00:00:00 2020-04-13 10.00 2014-03-20 BOOK 0 0 lcc 0 0 Books AUA.1 AUA.1 GS 2011-07-19 Bought by JTL 10.00 AUA26339 2 1 B 5305 .A34 2011 AUA26339 2026-01-30 08:20:33 2025-09-30 2 10.00 2011-07-19 BOOK