Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought
by Gottlieb, Alma
- Used
- near fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0226305074
- ISBN 13
- 9780226305073
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Near-Fine trade paperback. Covers are nearly perfect, small ownership stamp on endpaper. 184 as-new pages, several diagrams and maps. The author explores ideology and social practices of the Beng people of Cote d'Ivoire, Africa. Includes forest sex and witchcraft, palm wine, male elder, slave lineage, and the ritual planting of kapok trees.
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- Bookseller
- Bruce McLeod (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007982
- Title
- Under the Kapok Tree: Identity and Difference in Beng Thought
- Author
- Gottlieb, Alma
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0226305074
- ISBN 13
- 9780226305073
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Place of Publication
- Chicago, Il
- Date Published
- 1997
- Pages
- 184
- Keywords
- kapok tree trees african rituals ideology and social practices of the Beng people Cote d'Ivoire, Africa ivory coast forest sex and witchcraft, palm wine, male elder, slave lineage, and the ritual planting of kapok trees.
- Bookseller catalogs
- History; Social Sciences; Africa;
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