Volume 4

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
Stiftung Grasland Kamerun

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

Chapter 4

The Insignia of Notables

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The author

Hans Knöpfli, 1927,
Craftsman und Theologian
Dr. theol. h.c.

Hans Knöpfli was born in Winterthur (Switzerland) in 1927.

He lived in Cameroon from 1956 to 1993 where he worked both as pastor and craftsman.

He received an Honorary Doctorate from the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Yaoundé (Cameroon) on 21st October 2005 for the part he has played in the struggle against poverty in Cameroon.

With strong support from leading Fons and Chiefs he established the Presbyterian Handicraft Centres in Bafut, Bali-Nyonga and Bamessing (known as Prescraft) with the aim of preventing the disappearance of indigenous arts and crafts and of reducing unemployment among school-leavers.

Address
Hans Knöpfli-Zingg
Hauptstrasse 25
CH-4566 Kriegstetten
Tel. +41 (0) 32 675 48 41