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| AUTHOR: | Dominique Zahan |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | Univ of Chicago Pr (Tx) |
| ISBN: | 0226977781 |
| TYPE: | Africa, African Religions And Mythologies, General, Religion, Religious Anthropology, Sociology |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Great Survey of African Philosophy In this work, Dominique Zahan offers a composite of African philosophy. Religious rites and socialization in many African societies emphasize discretion, circumspection and stoic endurance of pain. Initiation rites, and other religious ceremonies, also emphasize the need for personal regeneration. Maturation and personal development are understood to involve ongoing transformation. Drawing heavily from post-colonial work, including Zahan's own research among the Bambara around the 1960s, this study is a great introduction to "traditional" African thought.
Similarly interesting studies on the same subject are two works by Edward Geoffrey Parrinder--West African Religion, West African Psychology. Parrinder consulted earlier works on Francophone West Africa (e.g., Louis Tauxier's study of Bambara Religion), but his research focused especially on Anglophone Africa--the Ibo and Yoruba of Nigeria and the Akan of Ghana, for instance. Zahan's work was largely on Francophone Africa; his work is only in English by translation. The contrasts and similarities between the two authors are illuminating.