The Primitive City of TimbuctooAmerican Philosophical Society, 1953 - 297 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 171
... groom and father . For a wedding feast the members give the groom a cow and four sheep -but only if the bride is a virgin . Hundreds of kola are do- nated ; the barber who shaves the groom's head is paid ; the gift to the bride's ...
... groom and father . For a wedding feast the members give the groom a cow and four sheep -but only if the bride is a virgin . Hundreds of kola are do- nated ; the barber who shaves the groom's head is paid ; the gift to the bride's ...
الصفحة 185
... groom asks another reduction " in the name of all the assembled rela- tives " and the remaining dowry is reduced a third . Another re- quest is made in the name of the groom's " father " himself . The ensuing deduction varies from one ...
... groom asks another reduction " in the name of all the assembled rela- tives " and the remaining dowry is reduced a third . Another re- quest is made in the name of the groom's " father " himself . The ensuing deduction varies from one ...
الصفحة 189
... groom is joined by his comrades and visited by those of his parents ' generation . The guests are served tea and on departure given a kola nut . The young men each bring five francs and ten kola for the groom . He takes tea with his ...
... groom is joined by his comrades and visited by those of his parents ' generation . The guests are served tea and on departure given a kola nut . The young men each bring five francs and ten kola for the groom . He takes tea with his ...
المحتوى
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