Contemporary ancestors : a beginner's anthropology for district officers and missionaries in Africa / by Cullen Young. With a foreword by H.S. Keigwin
1940, First edition. London : RTS--Lutterworth Press. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Scattered foxing throughout. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #343017
Physical description: 190 pages 22 cm. Contents: Man on earth: Genesis narrative; work of man's hands; honourable antiquity. - Africa today: other people's lives; mother-right, father-right; extended kinship; enjoined marriage; mother; coming of age; tabu; God & world; other old testaments; "ancestor-worship" fallacy; battle of sexes; death; epilogue "for Christians only". Subjects: Ethnology Africa. Primitive societies. Anthropology Africa. Missionaries Training of Africa. Missions Anthropological aspects. Primitive societies Africa. Africa Social life and customs History 20th century.
Price: €45.00