Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination in Africa

by James W. Fernandez

NARRATIVES OF FANG EUROPEAN CONTACTS 1840-1910; OLD FANG CULTS; DYNAMICS OF BWITI IN SPACE AND TIME; BIRTH AND DEATH; PLEASURE DOME; 731 PAGES

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

James W. Fernandez, Ph.D. (Northwestern University, 1962; B.A., Amherst College, 1952), is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and of Social Sciences at the University of Chicago. Previously he was Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, and was chair of the department of anthropology at Dartmouth College, 1971–1975. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship for research in the social sciences in 2003. In 1983, he received the Herskovits Prize for Bwiti: An Ethnography of the Religious Imagination In Africa from the African Studies Association.

Reviews

[Shea · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great information. At times, tedious as hell to get through.