02134cam a2200349 a 45000010008000000030004000080050017000120070003000290080041000320100017000730200022000900350023001120350017001350400013001520430012001650500023001770820023002002450061002232600033002843000037003175040054003545050335004085200724007436510037014676510022015047000044015267100047015709420012016179480028016299990011016579520116016685710030OSt20170420162011.0..060314s2005    ke a     b    000 0 eng d  a  2006306154  a9966712607 (pbk.)  a(OCoLC)ocm64667014  a(NNC)5710030  aMNYcMNY  af------  aB 5305 b.A34 200504aB 5305 b.A34 200500aAfrican Cultural Knowledge: Themes and Embedded Beliefs   aNairobi:bMIAS Books,c2005.  av, 274 p. :bcol. ill. ;c21 cm.  aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 273-274).0 aCreator 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.  a"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]. 0aAfricaxSocial life and customs. 0aAfricaxReligion.1 aKirwen, Michael C.ecompiled and edited2 aMaryknoll Institute of African Studies.4.  2lcccBK1 a20060726bccsds12dMPS  c84d84  00102lcc405171aJHIAbJHIAcGENd2016-08-09l0oB 5305 .A34 2005p6775r2016-08-09 00:00:00w2016-08-09yBK