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Nomads of Niger - Carol Beckwith and Marion van OffelenNomads of Niger by Carol Beckwith and Marion van Offelen is the first to be published about the Wodaabe of Niger, a unique and colourful people in sub-Saharan Africa. Among the few surviving nomads in the world, these tall, slender, handsome, desert dwellers live as they have for centuries, moving their herds across a parched landscape. |
ZAR 350.00 |
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The Music of Central Africa - Rose BrandelThe Music of Central Africa:An Ethnomusicological Study. Former French Equatorial Africa, The Former Belgian Congo, Ruanda-Urundi, Uganda, Tanganyika by Rose Brandel is a very comprehensive study of the the music of the areas listed. The book is divided into two parts: Part one considers the singing styles, an analysis of the music and the ethnology of the music. |
ZAR 350.00 |
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The Stone Age Cultures of Northern Rhodesia - J. Desmond ClarkThe Stone Age Cultures of Northern Rhodesia: With Particular Reference to the Cultural and Climatic Succession in the Upper Zambezi Valley and its Tributaries by J. Desmond Clark is an in-depth look at early Rhodesian civilisation and includes a chapter on the geology by F. Dixey, and appendixes by H. B. S. Cooke, L. H. Wells and G. Bond. |
ZAR 500.00 |
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The Lango - J H DribergThe Lango:A Nilotic Tribe of Uganda by J H Driberg is the most comprehensive work on the Lango of Uganda. Over half of the book is taken up with the ethnology, and further sections on grammar, vocabularies and fables. Illustrated with b&w photos and a folding map. |
ZAR 800.00 |
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Igbo Traditional Verse - Romanus Egudu and Donatus NwogaIgbo Traditional Verse by Romanus Egudu and Donatus Nwoga are translations into English which cover recitations and songs from dances. |
ZAR 55.00 |
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Africa Adorned - Angela FisherAfrica Adorned by Angela Fisher describes many treasures and relics of the past, many of which are only found in private hands or museums outside of Africa. Angela Fisher brings us the story behind them, corroborated by extensive research, and combines a vivid portrait of African life with photographs of the finest jewellery made and worn in that continent since the 13th century. |
ZAR 1,250.00 |
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Himba - Margaret JacobsohnHimba: Nomads of Namibia by Margaret Jacobsohn describes the people who are semi-nomadic pastoralists who live in Kaokoland in the remote north-western corner of Namibia. The integrity of this account along with the full colour photos provides a unique record of the 'ochre people of the dry river beds'. Photography by Peter & Beveley Pickford |
ZAR 120.00 |
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African Mythology - Jan KnappertAfrican Mythology by Jan Knappert is a comprehensive alphabetical guide to the beliefs, myths and cosmology of African peoples. Gods, mythical figures, legends, fables, religious concepts, prophets, mystical phenomena, spirits and demons are all covered. |
ZAR 90.00 |
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African Dream Machines - Anitra NettletonAfrican Dream Machines: Style, Identity and Meaning of African Headrests by Anitra Nettleton takes African headrests out of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied category of "art" objects. |
ZAR 450.00 |
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Hare and Hornbill - Okot P'BitekHare and Hornbill by Okot P'Bitek is a collection of the oral verse of the Acoli given a virile rendering. |
ZAR 65.00 |
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Insight and Artistry in African Divination - John Pemberton IIIInsight and Artistry in African Divination by John Pemberton III contains fifteen essays by leading scholars which reveal the similarities and differences in the practices of a wide range of sub-Saharan cultures. Among the peoples of Central and West Africa, divination rituals are performed in moments set aside from ordinary affairs, taking place when circumstances require them. |
ZAR 275.00 |
