"People of the grasses"
Subtitle: studies on the Buduma [Yedina] of Lake Chad
By: by Walter Konrad ; translated by Gisela Seidensticker-Brikay
Contributors: Seidensticker-Brikay, G.; Baroin, Catherine
Series: Borno Sahara and Sudan Series Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences -- vol. IV; Borno Sahara and Sudan Series -- v. 4.
Publisher: University of Maiduguri
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Maiduguri, Nigeria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 249
ISBN-13: 9789783646155
Subjects: Buduma (African people); Ethnology
Notes: "With volume IV of the University's Borno Sahara and Sudan Series ..., we present a series of ethnolographic articles that Walter Konrad published in the 1950s up to 1964, concentrating on cultural, social, and economic aspects of Yedina/Buduma life"--Page iii.

Includes related article by Catherine Baroin, originally published in Man and the Lake: proceedings of the 12th Mega Chad Conference, Maiduguri, 2nd-9th December 2003 (2005).

Includes appendices by Seidensticker-Brikay.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Zad; title: mystery between Niger and Nile (1955); title: On garment and jewellery of the Buduma (1964); title: Fertility cults among the Buduma : a contribution to the culture history of the Lake Chad population (1955); title: Water craft of the Lake Chad region (1957); title: The 'Kanaka' of Lake Chad : a contribution to knowledge of the spiritual world of the Buduma (n.d.); title: Further contributions to knowledge about the Buduma (1963); title: What do we know about the Buduma? : a brief survey (2005) / Catherine Baroin.