African worlds
Subtitle: studies in the cosmological ideas and social values of African peoples
By: Daryll Forde (editor) ; new introduction by Wendy James
Contributors: Forde, Cyril Daryll, 1902-; James, Wendy; International African Institute
Edition: 2nd ed
Series: Classics in African anthropology
Publisher: Lit; James Currey with the IAI
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Hamburg; Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 243
Subjects: Ethnology -- Africa; Africans -- Social life and customs; Cosmology, African; Rites and ceremonies -- Africa
Notes: "First published by Oxford University Press for the International African Institute 1954."

Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Daryll Forde; title: The Lele of Kasai / Mary Douglas; title: The Abaluyia of Kavirondo (Kenya) / Gunter Wagner; title: The Lovedu of the Transvaal /J.D. Krige; title: The Dogon of the French Sudan / Marcel Griaule; title: The Mende in Sierra Leone / Kenneth Little; title: The Shilluk of Ruanda / Godfrey Lienhardt; title: The kingdom of Ruanda / J.J. Maquet; title: The Ashanti of the Gold Coast / K.A. Busia; title: The Fon of Dahomey / P. Mercier