The Primitive City of TimbuctooAmerican Philosophical Society, 1953 - 297 من الصفحات |
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... Niger River wanders northward out of the jungles , laps at the sands of the Sahara , then twists away southward and ultimately empties into the Gulf of Guinea . Timbuctoo lies where the river and desert meet . For centuries the ...
... Niger River wanders northward out of the jungles , laps at the sands of the Sahara , then twists away southward and ultimately empties into the Gulf of Guinea . Timbuctoo lies where the river and desert meet . For centuries the ...
الصفحة 4
... Niger , to the south of Timbuctoo . Seasonally the river valley between these two points becomes a huge morass over fifty miles wide . Shortly before the Niger reaches Tim- buctoo , it turns sharply to the east and , from that point on ...
... Niger , to the south of Timbuctoo . Seasonally the river valley between these two points becomes a huge morass over fifty miles wide . Shortly before the Niger reaches Tim- buctoo , it turns sharply to the east and , from that point on ...
الصفحة 38
... Niger floodland to the south and west of the city.12 12 A glance at the city plan will show that there are other dis ... Niger , or it may come from ba ( to break ) , in some such sense as " the severed canal , " if it did not ...
... Niger floodland to the south and west of the city.12 12 A glance at the city plan will show that there are other dis ... Niger , or it may come from ba ( to break ) , in some such sense as " the severed canal , " if it did not ...
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Mating | 175 |
BirthA Family Focus | 203 |
Death and Afterlife | 221 |
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Abaradyu Africa age-grade Alfa Allah Arab Arab slaves Arma Bambara baraka barbers Bela belief Berabich birth Bourem boys bride brother buctoo bush cadi Caillié camels caravan ceremony charms child circumcision cloth commercial common comrades concubine conflict corpse cowries cross-cousin culture custom Daga daughter deceased divorce Djenné economic ethnic group father feast fetish fetishist French Gabibi genii gifts girl grave grigri groom Hausa husband huts Kabara kabi kambu Keyna kola nuts kondey Koran koterey marabouts marriage married merchants Mohammed Mohammedan Moroccan Morocco Moslem mosque mother native Negro Niger parents pattern person population prayer quarter recognized relatives religious ritual robes saints salt sand Sankore serfs shea butter shereef sister slippers social society Songhoi Sonni Ali status Sudan Sudanese supernatural taboo Taodeni term Timbuctoo tion town trade traits Tuareg urban vampire vendors Westermarck wife wives woman women Yakouba