Nupe religion
Subtitle: traditional beliefs and the influence of Islam in a West African chiefdom.
Publisher: Schocken Books
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Nupe (African people) -- Religion.
Description: The Nigerian Nupe were mostly Islamisized when the author went there in 1934-6. He describes the underlying indigenous religion and deals with its beliefs, ritual, healing, witchcraft, divination ... and the effect of Islam upon it.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Intended as a sequel to ... [the author's] first monograph on the Nupe people, a black Byzantium."