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Subjects
Ethnology, Frederick H. Rawson-Field Museum Ethnological Expedition to West Africa (1929-1930), Industries, Mbundu (African people), Serpent worship, African Traditional Medicine, History, Occultism, Snakes, Slangencultus
Places
Africa, Angola, Nigeria

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Serpent worship in Africa: The Ovimbundu of Angola ; Culture areas of Nigeria
1968, Kraus Reprint
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Serpent worship in Africa
1931
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1931
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Table of Contents

I. Python worship
II. The serpent and fecundity, transmigration of souls, totemism
III. The rainbow snake
IV. Immunity and snake-medicines
V. Distribution of beliefs and probable lines of migration
VI. The question of an external origin of African serpent beliefs
VII. Zoological evidence as an explanation of origins
VIII. Summary and conclusions.

Edition Notes

Series
Fieldiana -- v. 21, no. 1, Publication, Field Museum of Natural History -- 289. -- Anthropological series -- Vol. XXI, No. 1, Publication (Field Museum of Natural History : 1909) -- 289, Publication (Field Museum of Natural History : 1909) -- v. 21, no. 1

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Library of Congress
GN2 .F4 v.21 no.1

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Pagination
85 p., [VIII] leaves of plates :
Number of pages
85

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OL13502069M
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serpentworshipin211hamb
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31033982
OCLC/WorldCat
3779241

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