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  • Original Anthropological Work – Some Aspects of Time Reckoning Among Selected African Tribes – James PhD Oxford 1956

    Original Anthropological Work – Some Aspects of Time Reckoning Among Selected African Tribes – James PhD Oxford 1956

    Original Anthropological Work – Some Aspects of Time Reckoning Among Selected African Tribes – Greta James – PhD Thesis Oxford 1956

    This is a superb PhD thesis the author gaining a Oxford doctorate 1956. A near unique work (one copy only in the Bodlean Library). Contains 245 typed pages (one side) with tables, maps, bibliography etc.

    A major work on the significance of the sense of time, the calendar, cosmology, western influences, lunar zodiacs of various African tribes including those from the West, East and Southern Bantu. From the time of day measured and described by reference to cattle activity, the lunar cycle and the best and worst times for initiation or making spears, the zodiac and the bearing of the Pleiades in planting and harvesting crops to the naming of years gone such as “Blades of Herbs” (1867), “Year of the Ostrich” (1888) and sadly “Smallpox” (1894) and “Venereal Disease” (1903)

    A most interesting and valuable work on African tribes

    $170.00

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  • A Naturalist in Mid-Africa: Being an Account of a Journey to the Mountains of the Moon in Tanganyika – Elliot GFS

    A Naturalist in Mid-Africa: Being an Account of a Journey to the Mountains of the Moon in Tanganyika – Elliot GFS

    Book description: London, AD Innes & Co publisher 1896 First edition. 8vo xvi, 413pp frontis of snow peaks of Ruwenzori with tissue guard. 49 plates and illustrations from photographs and sketches, diagram, 4 maps including 3 coloured and folding lithographed maps at end. Original pictorial cloth, gilt lettering to spine. A good copy.

    An important work on African exploration and discovery, under the auspices of The Royal Geographical Society, including a thorough study of the terrain, people, nature and botany. The appendix contains a list of the native chiefs in the area, altitudes, scientific collections, agricultural and other products of the region.

    Very nicely illustrated – an important and rare book on Africa.

    $140.00

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