Nineteenth-century tomb at Ununio, coast of Tanzania
Siwa or ceremonial horn from Lamu, north-eastern Kenya
African Christian Church symbol on hillside near Johannesburg
Anyanwu, The Awakening: by Ben Enwonwu, Lagos
Photographs (before text)
1. Akan shrine priest, central Ghana
2. Tallensi hut interior, northern Ghana 1965
3. Akan ceremonial stool, central Ghana
4. Ancient bronze ceremonial vessel, Ita Yemoo, Yorubaland
5. Ancient terracotta head, Ife, Yorubaland
7. Balante village shrine, Guinea-Bissau 1967
8. Assembly for public ritual of Karimojong adult juniors, 1957
9. Assembly for public ritual of Karimojong elders, 1957
10. Small bronze figure representing an Akan ancestor
11. Spanish witches in flight, with attendant owl: aquatint from Goya’s Caprichos
12. A medieval ‘Witches’ Sabbath’: woodcut from Hans-Baldung Grien, 1510
15. and 16. The annual ‘pilgrimage’ at Rocia, Alicante, Spain
Acknowledgements
Plates. 1, 2, 3: Paul Strand. 4, 5, 6, 10: Werner Forman, 7: author. 8, 9: plates 5A and 5B from Neville Dyson-Hudson, Karimojong Politics, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1966. 11, 12: Mansell Collection. 14: Phillips Studio, Wells. 15, 16: John Hilleson Agency Ltd.
Drawings in the text. p. 63, from Godfrey Lienhardt, Divinity and Experience, Oxford Clarendon Press, 1961. p. 79, from Neville Dyson-Hudson, Karimojong Politics, Oxford, Clarendon Press 1966. p. 171, redrawn from Marcel Griaule, Conversations with Ogotêmmeli, O.U.P. for the International African Institute, 1965. p. 228, from Peter Morton-Williams, ‘An outline of the cosmology and cult organisation of the Oyo Yoruba’, Africa xxxiv.3, 1964.
All drawings in the text not otherwise acknowledged are by Caroline Sassoon, who made them for this book.
Akan shrine priest, central Ghana 1965
Tallensi hut interior, northern Ghana 1965
Akan ceremonial stool, central Ghana
Ancient bronze ceremonial vessel, Ita Yemoo, Yorubaland
Ancient terracotta head, Ife, Yorubaland
Benin royal shrine, 1965
Balante village shrine, Guinea–Bissau, 1967
Assembly for public ritual of adult juniors of Karimojong, 1957
Assembly for public ritual of Karimojong elders, 1957
Small bronze figure representing an Alkan ancestor
Spanish witches in flight, with attendant owl: aquatint from Goya’s Caprichos
A medieval ‘Witches’ Sabbath’: woodcut by Hans Baldung–Grien, 1510
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