The childhood of man
By: Leo Frobenius ; translated by A.H. Keane.
Contributors: Keane, A. H. 1833-1912.
Publisher: Meridian Books
Published: 1960
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 504
Subjects: Ethnology.
Other titles: Aus den Flegeljahren der Menschheit.
Notes: Includes index.

Title on cover: The childhood of man : a popular account of the lives, customs, and thoughts of primitive races.

Translation of: Aus den Flegeljahren der Menschheit.

Reprint. Originally published: London : Sealey, 1909.

Photocopy. 22 x 28 cm.
Table of contents: value: Personal adornment.; value: Tattooing.; value: Tests of manhood.; value: Origin of labour.; value: Dress language.; value: Sign and gesture language.; value: The drum language.; value: Drums and drum dances.; value: Picture writing & decoration.; value: Animal stories of the Bushmen.; value: A funeral in inner Africa.; value: The ghost.; value: Skull worship and head hunting.; value: Ancestor worship and fetishism.; value: Secret societies and masks.; value: The Mide.; value: (cont.) Sacred animals.; value: The Tiwah and the journey of the dead souls of the Dayaks.; value: The downfall of god.; value: Shango the typical sun-god.; value: On the path of the sun.; value: Mankind on the path of the sun.; value: The cunning spider.; value: Origin of the world, fall of the sky, the flood.; value: The theft of fire.; value: Fire worshiip.; value: The discovery of fire.; value: The stone age.; value: The iron age.; value: Early history of war.; value: Cannibals.; value: Warlike peoples.