IN THE SHADOW OF THE BUSH, Talbot 1912 West Africa Nigeria Cameroon Ekoi JuJu

Description: IN THE SHADOW OF THE BUSH P. AMAURY TALBOT WILLIAM HEINEMANN: LONDON 1912 First edition. Percy Amaury Talbot was a versatile British official, botanist, anthropologist and African traveller in the service of the Nigerian Political Service. His book, In the Shadow of the Bush is an ethnographic classic. Together with his wife Dorothy Amaury Talbot, the author traveled extensively in the Oban District of Southern Nigeria and a part of Cameroon to study the people of the Ekoi as well as the natural history of the area. The work tells about religion, the secret society Egbo, Juju, position of women, birth ceremonies, divination, sorcery, mourning ceremonies, war, government, folklore etc. with detailed appendices on taboos, clubs, anthropometry, orthography, grammar, vocabulary, botany, zoology, Mineralogy, meteorology and geography. CONTENTS ON THE WAY TO OBAN RELIGION EGBO [Igbo] JUJUS JUJU (CONTINUED) METAMORPHOSIS OBAN TO NIAJI WOMAN—POSITION, ETC. WOMAN—POSITION, ETC. (CONTINUED) BIRTH CUSTOMS BIRTH CUSTOMS (CONTINUED) BEYOND NIAJI THE SOUTH CAMEROONS ALONG THE BORDER ORDEAL DIVINATION OJJE OR WITCHCRAFT OBEREKKAI TO ETARA EKOI OF THE CROSS RIVER FUNERAL CEREMONIES GHOSTS BEYOND NETIM UYANGA AND EKURI CONDITIONS OF LIFE IN PEACE AND WAR ART RECORDS GOVERNMENT, ETC. TREATMENT OF " MEMBERS " FOLK-LORE L'ENVOIE 21 x 14 cm. xiv + 500 pp + colour frontispiece + numerous b/w photo plates + folding diagram + folding map. Very good + condition. Previous owner's name stamp on front free endpaper. Some occasional foxing, otherwise clean and tidy, binding sound, all plates and map present. Get images that make Supersized seem small. THE simple solution for eBay sellers.

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