Music and Musical Instruments, Traditional Religion, Native Laws and Customs

Foreword: Paul Jenkins, Lecturer in African History, University of Basel

200 pages
182 black & white photographs
35 coloured photographs

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Publisher
Basel Mission

Editor
Paul Jenkins

Distributor
'The Calabash', The Fair Trade Enterprise in mission 21, Basel

Illustrations
© Hans Knöpfli, Kriegstetten

Printed and bound in Cameroon by Presbyterian Printing Press, Limbe, S.W. Province

Summary
Volume 4 takes up the way that cultural and religious surroundings have an essential, lasting influence on the social situation and the intellectual consciousness of craftsmen and craftswomen – and thus, too, on their products. Also in this publication the author presents himself as a preserver of Cameroonian native laws and traditions, and makes it clear how he links being a missionary with serious efforts to bind christianity and African religious culture together.

Chapter 1
Music and Musical Instruments

Chapter 2
Death Celebrations, Masks, Traditional Religion

Chapter 3
Rituals, Native Laws and Customs