Voices of the ancestors African myth
A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests.
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Amsterdam [Netherlands] :
Time-Life Books,
©1999.
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| Series: | Myth and mankind.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Allan, Tony, |d 1946- | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Voices of the ancestors : |b African myth / |c [writers, Tony Allan, Fergus Fleming, Charles Phillips]. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a African myth |
| 260 | |a Amsterdam [Netherlands] : |b Time-Life Books, |c ©1999. | ||
| 300 | |a 144 pages : |b illustrations (some color) ; |c 29 cm. | ||
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| 490 | 1 | |a Myth and mankind | |
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (page 144) and index. | ||
| 520 | |a A dramatic series that captures, culture by culture, the information that never makes it into the history books: strange stories, mystic rites, angry gods, vision quests. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Cradle of mankind (Africa and its peoples -- Picture essay: Ancient palaces of the kings) -- Wonders of creation (Oldest tales of the San -- The separation of Heaven and Earth -- Making the earth -- Ancestors of mankind -- The duality of twinship -- The origin of cattle -- Life's staples of food and fire -- Ancient serpent beings -- Picture essay: Scars of ancestry) -- An ordered world (The coming of death -- Living in terror of witches -- Seeking sanctuary from shapeshifters -- The diviner's secret arts -- Brotherhoods of the initiates -- The roles of men and women -- Learning lessons from the animals -- Picture essay: Death's rich ritual) | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Heroes and tricksters (The epic songs of the bards -- Wonderful children -- Lonkundo the hunter -- Son of Death -- The blacksmith culture heroes -- Anarchic first man -- Unwitting agents of order -- Keen wits of Ananse -- Hlakanyana the Zulu trickster -- Legba the lecher god -- The outwitting of the mischief-maker -- Dark spirits of the forest fastnesses -- Picture essay: The mystique of masks) -- Kingdoms and empires (The kings who came from the sky -- The vanishing city -- The lion of Manding -- The Queen of Sheba's son -- The wise and peaceful king -- A hero betrayed) -- The African legacy. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Mythology, African. | |
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| 690 | 0 | |a Rupert, Matt tribute. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Fleming, Fergus, |d 1959- | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Phillips, Charles. | |
| 710 | 2 | |a Time-Life Books. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Allan, Tony. |t Voices of the ancestors. |d Amsterdam [Netherlands] : Time-Life Books, ©1999 |w (OCoLC)756457187 |
| 830 | 0 | |a Myth and mankind. | |
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