Bantu Beliefs and Magic: with particular reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba tribes of Kenya colony; together with some reflections on east Africa after the war (Routledge Revivals) - Image 1

£81.10

Routledge Bantu Beliefs and Magic: with particular reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba tribes of Kenya colony; together with some reflections on east Africa after the war (Routledge Revivals)

Name: Bantu Beliefs and Magic: with particular reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba tribes of Kenya colony; together with some reflections on east Africa after the war (Routledge Revivals)
Brand: Routledge
Price: 81.1 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

£81 today · previous high £81 · all-time low £76

NEW HERE?

Amazon shows you one price. We show you all of them.

Tosheroon watches Amazon prices so you don't have to. Every product on Amazon has a price history — we make it visible. Set the price you'd actually pay, and we'll email you the second it gets there. No app, no account, one email.

WHAT'S ON THIS PAGE

↓ Price chart
when this has been cheap or pricey

↓ Forecast
where the price is heading next

↓ Statistics
all-time high & low, recent range

↑ Price alert
name your number, we'll email you

Price History & Forecast

Grey patches = out of stock. Cheaper = lower on the chart. Hover for exact prices.

Last 80 days · 80 data points (no recent data)

Historical

Generating forecast…

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 80 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £81 (51 days, 63.7%)

Price range: £76 - £81

Price levels: 2 different prices over 80 days

Description

First published in 1922, the author of this book was for many years a Provincial Commissioner of what was then the Kenya Colony whose main objects were to place on record the results of investigations made among the native tribes in British East Africa, particularly among the Kikuyu and Kamba people, and to endeavour from a study of their ceremonial with regard to sacrifice and taboo, to obtain a better insight into the principles which underlie the outward forms and ceremonies of their ritual. Together with natural religion and magic, the author discusses a variety of social activities influenced by religious beliefs, such as the organisation of councils, ceremonial oaths, war and peace, dances, legends, and the position of women in tribal society. The functions of some of the practices are self-evident or can be explained within the limits of psychological or anthropological terms, whilst others remain unexplained and seem inexplicable, even futile. The author’s careful analysis of this last class provides interesting ethnological comment, for in seeking a better understanding of the psychology of one particular race, he draws attention also to analogous conditions of religious customs existing amongst other widely differing races. In the last chapter, ‘Quo Vadis’, added to the second edition of 1938, the author furthers his discussion of East Africa after the war. Together with the factual analysis of the first three parts, these additional observations, invaluable once to administrators and all concerned in colonial government, today prove their value not only for students of East Africa, but for all those endeavouring to arrive at an adjustment between the old native social structure and the extraneous forces now operating with ever increasing intensity. About the Author C. W. Hobey

Product Specifications

Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1138391859
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 25 July 2019
Listed Since: 26 July 2019

Barcode

No barcode data available

Routledge Bantu Beliefs and Magic: with particular reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba tribes of Kenya colony; together with some reflections on east Africa after the war (Routledge Revivals)

This is the most expensive it has ever been. Walk away.

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Taveta Chronicle 1895-1901

Orality and Language (Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies)

Routledge Gender and Rights - Key Concepts in Indigenous Studies

Beyond Aesthetics: Art and the Technologies of Enchantment

Routledge Environment and Belief Systems - Indigenous Studies

Knowing Differently: The Challenge of the Indigenous

Ethnographies for a Global Century

Culture Wars: Context, Models and Anthropologists' Accounts: 12 (EASA Series, 12)

Revisiting the roots of an African shrine: The sacred Mũgumo tree: An investigation of the religion and politics of the Gĩkũyũ people in Kenya

Collecting Colonialism: Material Culture and Colonial Change

Abacwezi and Embandwa: A traditional African Religion

Contested Power in Angola, 1840s to the Present

Vodou en Vogue: Fashioning Black Divinities in Haiti and the United States (Where Religion Lives)

Perspectives on Intercultural Psychotherapy: An Igbo Group Analyst’s Search for Social and Cultural Identity (Explorations in Mental Health)

Crossing Histories and Ethnographies: Following Colonial Historicities in Timor-Leste: 37 (Methodology & History in Anthropology, 37)

Ritual and Memory: Toward a Comparative Anthropology of Religion (Cognitive Science of Religion): 6

Modernity and Spirit Worship in India: An Anthropology of the Umwelt (Routledge New Horizons in South Asian Studies)

Francis Huxley and the Human Condition: Anthropology, Ancestry and Knowledge

History, Memory, and Territorial Cults in the Highlands of Laos: The Past Inside the Present (Routledge Contemporary Asian Societies)

A Separate Authority (He Mana Motuhake), Volume II: The Crown’s Betrayal of the Tūhoe Māori Sanctuary in New Zealand, 1915–1926: 2

The Witch-Hunt; or, The Triumph of Morality

Serials Guide to Ethnoart: A Guide to Serial Publications on Visual Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas: 0011 (Art Reference Collection)

Soul, Community and Social Change: Theorising a Soul Perspective on Community Practice

Closed Systems and Open Minds: The Limits of Naivety in Social Anthropology