The Primitive City of TimbuctooAmerican Philosophical Society, 1953 - 297 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 46
... cowries as they know that of francs today . The acceptance of a medium of exchange which cannot be consumed itself - cowries as against salt - necessitates easily available stocks of commodities for which the currency is ex- changeable ...
... cowries as they know that of francs today . The acceptance of a medium of exchange which cannot be consumed itself - cowries as against salt - necessitates easily available stocks of commodities for which the currency is ex- changeable ...
الصفحة 47
... cowries , they declined in value relative to cowries . But by 1940 cowries had been entirely replaced by the official French currency . * French pieces are now known by Songhoi terms . This is an unusual acculturation pattern with ...
... cowries , they declined in value relative to cowries . But by 1940 cowries had been entirely replaced by the official French currency . * French pieces are now known by Songhoi terms . This is an unusual acculturation pattern with ...
الصفحة 108
... cowrie readers . The past , present , and future are told by these women by casting cowrie shells and reading the events from the positions in which the cowries fall . For example , one cowrie coming to rest upon another indicates ...
... cowrie readers . The past , present , and future are told by these women by casting cowrie shells and reading the events from the positions in which the cowries fall . For example , one cowrie coming to rest upon another indicates ...
المحتوى
The Rise and Fall of Timbuctoo | 3 |
A | 13 |
The City Quarters | 43 |
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Abaradyu 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 in-law 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