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LoBagola : en innfødt afrikaners egen historie / oversatt av Hans Krag.

Book/Text

Oslo : H. Aschehoug, 1931.

1931

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B-LoBagola (LoBagola, B. LoBagola)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Lobagola; histoire d'un sauvage africain par lui-même. Traduite de l'anglais par G.M. Michel Drucker.

Book/Text

Paris, A. Michel [1932]

1932

1 item

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Regards sur la vie dahoméenne.

Book/Text

[Cotonou] 1968 -

1968-present

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 916.68-R (Regards sur la vie dahoméenne)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Regards sur la vie dahoméene.

Book/Text

[Cotonou] Pro Manuscripto, 1968-

1968-19

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJLM 79-734 fasc. 1; published 1968. v. 1Item locationOffsite
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Les Brésiliens [microform] : the impact of former Brazilian slaves upon Dahomey / by J. Michael Turner.

Microform

1975.

1975

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-4061Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Dans la brousse africaine; ou, Dahomey-Borghou.

Microform

Paris, Nouvelle Édition [1946]

1946

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc 916.68-P (Pedrals, D. Dans la brousse africaine)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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L'ancien royaume du Dahomey: mœurs, religion, histoire.

Microform

Paris. Larose. 1911.

1911

1 item

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FormatTextCall number*Z-3194Item locationOffsite

Les Brésiliens : the impact of former Brazilian slaves upon Dahomey / by J. Michael Turner.

Archival Mix

1975.

1975

1 item

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc D 78-951Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Atakora : Otiau, Otammari, Osuri, peuples du Nord Bénin (1950) / Albert-Marie Maurice.

Book/Text

Paris : Académie des sciences d'outre-mer, 1986.

1986

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 88-106Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Au pays des Fons : us et coutumes du Dahomey / Maximilien Quénum.

Book/Text

Paris : Larose, 1938.

1938

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 572.966-Q (Quénum, M. Au pays des Fons)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Terre de mort : Soudan & Dahomey / P. Vigne d'Octon.

Book/Text

Paris : Lemerre, 1892.

1892

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 916.68-V (Vigné d'Octon, P. Terre de mort)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Le Jumeau; ou, Mon enfance à Agoué.

Book/Text

Cotonou, Éditions du Bénin [1966]

1966

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 916.68-A (Almeida, D. Jumeau)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Dahomey and the Dahomans : being the journals of two missions to the king of Dahomey, and residence at his capital, in the year 1849 and 1850 / by Frederick E. Forbes ... ; in two volumes ; vol. I[-II]

Book/Text

London : Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1851.

1851

4 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Rare 916.68 F (Forbes, F.E. Dahomey and the Dahomans) v.2Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives
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The life of Olaudah Equiano, or, Gustavus Vassa the African, 1789. In two volumes, with a new introd. by Paul Edwards.

Book/Text

London, Dawsons of Pall Mall [c1969]

1969-1789

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B-Equiano (Equiano, O. Life of Olaudah Equiano) v. 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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LoBagola; an African savage's own story.

Book/Text

New York, A. A. Knopf, [c1930]

1930

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B-LoBagola (LoBagola, B. LoBagola)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Bénin magazine.

Book/Text

Cotonou : Bénin-Magazine, 1986-

1986-present

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Ser.-M .B387 1ere annee, no. 001, no. 004-2e annee no 9 (dec. 1986, mars 1987)-janv.-fevr. 1988)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FINDING AID AVAILABLE
Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits papers, 1902-1972.

Archival Mix

1902-1972

105 items

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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 261Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Le Dahomey : histoire, géographie, moeurs, coutumes, commerce, industrie, expeditions françaises (1891-1894) / par Edouard Foà ; préface de E. Levasseur ; ouvrage accompagné de 17 planches ou gravures hors texte dessinées par P. Merwart, Sirouy, Charpin et Lix d'après des photographies et des documents authentiques ; plans et carte coloriée gravés par E. Morieu.

Book/Text

Paris : A. Hennuyer, 1895.

1895

3 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Rare 966.8-F (Foa, E. Dahomey)Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Dahomey and the Dahomans; being the journals of two missions to the King of Dahomey and residence at his capital in the years 1849 and 1850 [by] Frederick E. Forbes.

Book/Text

London, Cass, 1966.

1966

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc C 02-125 v. 2Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Trajectoires peules au Bénin : six études anthropologiques / sous la direction de Thomas Bierschenk & Pierre-Yves Le Meur.

Book/Text

Paris : Karthala, c1997.

1997

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 98-3012Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The history of Dahomy : an inland kingdom of Africa : compiled from authentic memoirs : with an introduction and notes / by Archibald Dalzel, Esq., Governor at Cape-Coast Castle.

Book/Text

London : printed for the author by T. Spilsbury and Son : sold by G. and W. Nicol : C. Dilly : W. J. and J. Richardson, 1793.

1793

5 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Rare F 16-4 (Lapidus Collection)Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc Rare 966.801-D (Dalzel, A. History of Dahomy)Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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Les initiés.

Book/Text

[Avignon] Aubanel père [1953]

1953

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberQPF (Alapini, J. Inities)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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La maison aux sept portes : contes et légendes du Bénin / Dominique Aguessy ; illustrations de Titane de Vos.

Book/Text

Paris : L'Harmattan, c1996.

1996

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 00-2288Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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L'école et le milieu rural : une étude de cas dans le Sud du Bénin / Susy Greuter.

Book/Text

Zürich : Ethnologisches Seminar der Universität Zürich, c1987.

1987

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberJFE 98-10886Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Culture des peuples du Bénin / Gaston A.M. Agboton.

Book/Text

Dakar : Présence africaine ; Paris : Agence de la francophonie, c1997.

1997

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 98-3129Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Au pays des Fons : us et coutumes du Dahomey / Maximilien Quénum.

Book/Text

Paris : Maisonneuve et Larose, 1999.

1999-1936

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 00-1495Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Dobadjo, la première épouse / Catherine Fourgeau ; préface de Françoise Héritier.

Book/Text

Paris, France : L'Harmattan, c1999.

2000

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 01-363Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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L'art du Bénin / Paula Ben-Amos, [pour l'édition française avec la collaboration de Martine Chantenay].

Book/Text

[Paris?] : Rive gauche productions, 1979.

1979

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 01-440Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Initiatique vôdoun : images du rituel / photographies, texte et mise en page de Gilbert Rouget.

Book/Text

Saint-Maur : Sépia, 2001.

2001

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 02-381Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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L'accueil chez les Yoruba de Banigbé sud-est Bénin / Soeur Igbaro Bibiane.

Book/Text

Parakou, Benin : Monastère de l'Etoile Notre Dame, [1999]

1999

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 02-955Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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La nuit des grands morts : L'initiée et l'épouse chez les Tamberma du Togo / Dominique Sewane ; préface de Jean Malaurie ; présentation de Edmond Bernus.

Book/Text

Paris : Economica, 2002.

2002

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 03-412Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Les Houézènous, gens d'orient : telle est l'histoire / [Gabriel Gandanou Migan].

Book/Text

[Benin? : s.n., 1993?]

1993

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 03-1631Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Les Batãmmariba, le peuple voyant : carnets d'un ethnologue / Dominique Sewane.

Book/Text

Paris (France) : Editions de la Martinière, c2004.

2004

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 04-917Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Benin source pack for Key stage 2 / text written and sources selected by Andrew Forson ; illustrations by Rosemary Forson ; cover design by Julia Forson.

Book/Text

Wellingborough [U.K.] : Northamptonshire Black History Group, 1992.

1992

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 04-933Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Le Bénin : les hommes et leur milieu : guide pratique / Bernard Passot.

Book/Text

Paris : L'Harmattan, c2004.

2004

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 05-1220Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Contes et légendes du Bénin / Israël Mensah, dir. ; recueillis par Mémoire d'Afrique ; avec la collaboration de Joëlle Bernardin, Anne-Béatrice Muller et Jules Zannou ; préface d'Emile Derlin Zinsou.

Book/Text

Paris : Karthala, c2005.

2005

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 05-1321Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Une vie : roman / Alidjanatou Saliou Arekpa.

Book/Text

Cotonou, Bénin : Editions du flamboyant, c2004.

2004

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 06-925Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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A handbook of eweland : the ewe of Togo and Benin / edited by Benjamin Lawrance.

Book/Text

Accra : Woeli Publishing Services, 2005.

2005

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 06-1849Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Connaissez-vous le Bénin / Firmin Médénouvo.

Book/Text

Tillières-sur-Avre : Présence béninoise, 2005.

2005

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 06-671Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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La dragée et le charlatan / Albert Hounou.

Book/Text

[France] : Auto-édition, [2003?]

2003

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc C 07-58Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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La danse des Eguns : un rituel en terre vaudou / Hélène et Jean-Jacques Ducos.

Book/Text

Paris : Kubik, c2007.

2007

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 08-166Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Vaudou = Voodoo = Vudù / Jean-Dominique Burton ; [prefaces: Marie-Cécile Zinsou, Jean-Dominique Burton].

Book/Text

Milan : 5 continents ; Cotonou : Fondation Zinsou, 2007.

2007

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc G 08-93Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberMFX+ (Burton) 08-6638Item locationSchwarzman Building - Art and Architecture Room 300

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Poulet-bicyclette et Cie : nouvelles / Florent Couao-Zotti.

Book/Text

[Paris] : Gallimard, c2008.

2008

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 08-2294Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Musica Reservata : deux chants et danses initiatiques pour le culte des vôdoun au Bénin : / enregistrements, photographies mise en page et texte de Gilbert Rouget.

Book/Text

Paris : Palais de l'Institut, 2006.

2006

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 08-620Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatTextCall numberSc CD-1228Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Village on stilts [motion picture] / Denis Hargrave.

Film, Slide, etc.

New York : UNICEF, 1968.

1968

1 item

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FormatMoving imageCall numberJ M16 1540 V C.1 REEL 1 OF 1 C.1 REEL 1 OF 1Item locationOffsite

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Le bataillon maudit : roman / Olosunta.

Book/Text

Paris : L'Harmattan, 2009.

2009

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 10-322Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Dieux, rois et peuples du Bénin : arts anciens du littoral aux savanes / [commissariat de l'exposition: Hélène Joubert, Christophe Vital ; préfaces: Moussa Okanla, Hervé Besancenot, Philippe de Villiers].

Book/Text

Paris : Somogy, c2008.

2008

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc+ F 10-474Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Deuil et funérailles dans le Bénin méridional : enterrer à tout prix / Joël Noret.

Book/Text

Bruxelles : Éditions de l'Université de Bruxelles, [2010], ©2010.

2010-2010

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 12-260Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Vodoun : Jean-Dominique Burton, photographe : entretien / [sous la direction d'Ana Tognola et avec la collaboration de Gisèle Capo-Chichi].

Book/Text

[Cotonou, Bénin : Fondation Zinsou, 2007]

2007

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc F 11-111 no. 1-3Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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