TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kirwen,Michael C.
TI  - African cultural knowledge: themes and embedded beliefs 
SN  - 9966712607
AV  - B 5305 .A34 2011
U1  - 306.096 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Nairobi
PB  - MIAS Books
KW  - Philosophy, African
KW  - Mythology, African
KW  - Ethnoscience
KW  - Africa
KW  - Knowledge, Sociology of
KW  - Religion
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - LC copy signed by compiler; Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-274); Creator God -- Ancestors -- Living dead -- Nominal reincarnation -- African lineage -- Leadership -- Adulthood and elderhood -- Bridewealth -- Marriage -- Polygyny -- Herbalist -- Diviner -- Witch -- Witchcraft -- Death -- Appendix A. Beliefs summarized in each chapter -- Appendix B. Respondents by nationality and ethnic groups -- Appendix C. Selected Bibliography
N2  - "Based on field research data collected and analyzed over the past seventeen years, the Maryknoll Institute of African Studies has categorized cultural knowledge into fifteen themes and thirty-five domains. The themes are the major values, symbols and ideas that bring wholeness and coherence to a culture. The themes explain the nature of life, the nature of creation, the nature of evil, etc. Underneath and within these themes are thirty-five cultural domains, that is, specific activities, rituals, attitudes and happenings that make up the ordinary events in the lives of human beings, from birth to death and beyond ... The book is divided into fifteen chapters, one for each foundational theme"--Intro.,  p. [1]
ER  -