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Format. It is NOT Mac compatible.
This auction is for a collection of 17 Rare, out of print and hard
to find books on African Religion, Mythology, Bushman Folklore,
Voodoo and more ON
CD-ROM.
All books are complete, and include any illustrations contained in
the original hardcopy book. The books are searchable by keyword in either
the individual book or across then entire collection at once.
Myths, Religions and
Folklore
African Religion, Myth, and Folklore
ON
CD-ROM
| Jamaica Anansi Stories by Martha Warren Beckwith
[1924]
A classic work of Jamaican folklore. This volume includes folklore,
transcriptions of folk music, and a large collection of riddles. These
stories of African folklore were one of the few things of these people
that survived the voyage of the slave ships. |
| Specimens of Bushman Folklore by W.H.I. Bleek and
L.C. Lloyd [1911] |
| The Religious System of the Amazulu, by Henry Callaway;
Springvale, Natal [1870] |
| Folk Stories From Southern Nigeria, West Africa by
Elphinstone Dayrell [1910] |
| Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort (French Congo).
by Richard Edward Dennett [1898] |
At the Back of the Black Man's Mind by R. E. Dennett
[1906]
This book provied a detailed view of a system of nature worship,
sacred kingship, and shamanism long before Europeans can on the scene in
Africa. |
| Yoruba-Speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast of West Africa
by A. B. Ellis [1894] |
| South-African Folk-Tales by James A. Honeÿ
[1910] |
| Fetichism in West Africa, Forty Years' Observation of Native
Customs and Superstitions by Robert Hamill Nassau [1904] |
| Woman's Mysteries of a Primitive People by D.
Amaury Talbot, London [1915] |
| Hausa Folk-Lore by Maalam Shaihu, translated by R.
Sutherland Rattray [1913] |
| The Holy Piby by Robert Athlyi Rogers; Newark, New
Jersey [1924-8
Written by Robert Athlyi Rogers, who was the founder of an Afrocentric
religion in the US and West Indies. This religious movement, know as the
Afro Athlican Constructive Church, saw Ethiopians (in the Biblical sense
of Black Africans) as the chosen people of God, and proclaimed Marcus Garvey,
the a well know African Nationalist, as an apostle in the church.
The doctrine of the church was self-reliance and self-determination for Africans
and displaced Africans.
The hard copy of this book is very rare. The Holy Piby was a banned book
in many Caribbean Islands in the 1920s. Today the Holy Piby is embraced
by many Rastafarians as a primary source. |
| Kaffir {Xhosa} Folk-lore: A Selection from the Traditional
Tales by George McCall Theal [1886] |
| Myths and Legends of the Bantu by Alice Werner
[1933] |
| Voodoos and Obeahs, by Joseph J. Williams, S.J. New
York [1932] |
| Psychic Phenomena of Jamaica by Joseph J. Williams,
S.J. New York [1934] |
| Myths of Ífè, by John Wyndham. London
[1921]
A translation of some of the myths of the Yoruba people of Nigeria. Included
are stories of the creation of the world, tales of the gods, and humanity,
and an early history of the sacred city of Ífè, the traditional
center of Yoruba culture. |
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