African cultural knowledge
Subtitle: themes and embedded beliefs
By: compiled and edited by Michael C. Kirwen.
Contributors: Kirwen, Michael C.
Publisher: MIAS Books
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Nairobi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Philosophy, African.; Mythology, African.; Ethnoscience -- Africa.; Knowledge, Sociology of -- Africa.; Africa -- Religion.; Africa -- Social life and customs.
Description: "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"--P. [1].
Notes: LC copy signed by compiler.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-274).