Book
The Soul of an African people: The Bambara: their psychic, ethical, religious and social life
Aschendorff • Münster I. W. • Published In 1910 • Pages: v, 238 , [24] leaves of plates
By: Henry, Jos. (Joseph), Coleman, Anne.
Abstract
This volume is a study of the religion and some aspects of the life cycle of the Bambara by a French Roman Catholic missionary who had spent some years among them around the turn of the century. In the course of the work, Henry discusses the Bambara mentality and taboos, animism, general ideas on human life, Bambara ideas of God and other beings, fetishism, cults and sacrifices, the early life of the Bambara, circumcision and excision, marriage and death. Henry's views on the Bambara are highly colored by his own religious background, but, allowing for this, he was a very perceptive observer of Bambara life.
- HRAF PubDate
- 2000
- Region
- Africa
- Sub Region
- Western Africa
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Missionary
- Document Rating
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Timothy J. O'Leary ; 1960
- Field Date
- ca. 1900
- Coverage Date
- 1900-1910
- Coverage Place
- Mali
- Notes
- Joseph Henry
- Translation of: [L'ame d'un peuple Africain. Les Bambara leur vie psychique, ethique, sociale, religieuse]
- Translated for the HRAF files by Anne Coleman in 1960
- LCSH
- Bambara (African people)