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

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Dans le tourment du destin : essais d'histoire et de documentation sur les us, coutumes et religion, etc.

Book/Text

[Cotonou, Dahomey] : Éditions A.B.M., 1971.

1971

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 77-12Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Tradition, changement, histoíre : les "Somba" du Dahomey septentrional / Paul Mercier.

Book/Text

Paris : Éditions Anthropos, 1968.

1968

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc C 80-45Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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LoBagola : an African savage's own story / Bata Kindai Amgoza Ibn LoBagola.

Book/Text

Leipzig : B. Tauchnitz, 1930.

1930

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B 80-9Item 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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Zwei Frauen sind zuviel : soziale Konsequenzen technischer Innovationen in Übergang von der Subsistenz- zur Warenökonomie : die Boko in Nordbénin (Westafrika) / Roland Fett, Elenor Heller.

Book/Text

Saarbrücken : Breitenbach, 1978.

1978

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 82-723Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The memory subsystem of the Dahomey kingdom [microform] / by James C. Steele.

Microform

1977.

1977

1 item

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FormatMicroformCall numberSc Micro F-10739Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Tradition, changement, histoire, les "Somba" du Dahomey septrional.

Book/Text

Paris, Éditions Anthropos, 1968.

1968

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc C 84-142Item 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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An outline of Dahomean religious belief, by Melville J. Herskovits and Frances S. Herskovits.

Book/Text

Menasha, Wis., The American Anthropological Association [1933]

1933

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 299.64-H (Herskovits, M. Outline of Dahomean religious belief)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Religion among the primitives; with an introd. by Kingsley Davis.

Book/Text

Glencoe, Ill., Free Press [c1951]

1951

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberZAF (Goode, W. J. Religion among the primitives)Item locationOffsite
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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 291-G (Goode, W. Religion among the primitives)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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La géomancie à l'ancienne Côte des Esclaves / Bernard Maupoil.

Book/Text

Paris : Institut d'ethnologie, Musée de l'homme, 1988.

1988

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 91-452Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Le pacte de sang au Dahomey / Paul Hazoumé.

Book/Text

Paris : Institut d'Ethnologie, 1937.

1937

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 572.966-H (Hazoumé, P. Pacte de sang au Dahomey)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Dahomey, an ancient West African kingdom [by] Melville J. Herskovits.

Book/Text

New York City, J. J. Augustin, 1938.

1938

4 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 572.966-H (Herskovits, M. Dahomey)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberQPE (Herskovits, M. J. Dahomey)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Abomey-la-mystique. Préface de Pierre Mills.

Book/Text

Paris, Albert [1936].

1936

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 572.966-P (Prévaudeau, M. Abomey-la-mystique)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Les Noirs; leurs aspirations et leur avenir. Exposé du R. P. Aupiais; interventions de MM. Candace, Victor Augagneur.

Book/Text

[Boulogne-sur-Seine, Impr. dè́tudes sociales & politiques, 1927?]

1927

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 572.5-C (Comité national d̀études sociales et politiques. Noirs)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Fon of Dahomey; a history and ethnography of the Old Kingdom, by W. J. Argyle.

Book/Text

Oxford, Clarendon Press, [c1966]

1966

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 572.966-A (Argyle, W. Fon of Dahomey)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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FormatBook/TextCall numberD-17 4980Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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The Benin kingdom and the Edo-speaking peoples of south-western Nigeria, by R. E. Bradbury; the Benin kingdom, the Ishan, the northern Edo, the Urhobo and Isoko of the Niger Delta; together with a section on the Itsekiri, by P. C. Lloyd.

Book/Text

London, International African Institute, 1957.

1957

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 572.966-B (Bradbury, R. Benin kingdom and the Edo-speaking peoples)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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At the back of the black man's mind, or, Notes on the kingly office in West Africa / by R.E. Dennett.

Book/Text

London : Macmillan and Co., Limited ; New York : The Macmillan Company, 1906.

1906

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 572.967-D (Dennett, R. At the back of the black man's mind. 1906)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Les bas-reliefs des bâtiments royaux d'Abomey (Dahomey).

Book/Text

Paris, Institut d'ethnologie, 1926.

1926

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 731.5-W (Waterlot, G. Bas-reliefs des bâtiments)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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La Côte des Esclaves et le Dahomey : sept ans en Afrique Occidentale / par L'Abbé Pierre Bouche.

Book/Text

Paris : Librairie Plon, 1885.

1885

3 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 916.68-B (Bouche, P. Côte des Esclaves)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Les récades des rois du Dahomey.

Book/Text

Dakar, IFAN, 1962.

1962

2 items

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc 929.6-A (Adande, A. Récades des rois du Dahomey)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Die Struktur subsistenzorientierter Ökonomie, Mangelwirtschaft und Saisonalität bei Bauern in Süd-Benin : eine soziographische Fallstudie im Südosten der VR Benin, bei der Volksgruppe der Yoruba / Andreas Gerhard Maul.

Book/Text

Giessen : Wissenschaftlicher Fachverlag, 1990.

1990

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 93-981Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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LoBagola, autobiografia de un salvaje africano. Traducción directa del inglés por F. Menéndez y Arranz.

Book/Text

Madrid, Editorial Cenit, 1931.

1931

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc B-LoBagola (LoBagola B. LoBagola, autobiografia de un salvaje africano)Item 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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Dance as ritual drama and entertainment in the G̀ẹl̀ẹd́ẹ of the Kètu-Yorùbá subgroup in West Africa : (a study in traditional African feminism) / by Benedict M. Ìbítókun.

Book/Text

Ilé-If̀ẹ, Nigeria : Ọbáf́ẹmi Awóĺọẁọ University Press, 1993.

1993

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 94-520Item 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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FormatArchival MixCall numberSc MG 261Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

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

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Nom, famille et lignage chez les Ṣàḅé : (République du Bénin) / Montserrat Palau Martí.

Book/Text

Paris : Maisonneuve et Larose, 1992.

1992

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 95-1611Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Die soziale Bedeutung der Rinder bei den Fulbe (Benin) / Nikolaus Schareika.

Book/Text

Múnster : Lit, 1994.

1994

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 95-1707Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Les origines du peuple baatonu (Bariba) / Léon Bani Bio Bigou.

Book/Text

Cotonou, République du Bénin : Editions du Flamboyant, c1995.

1995

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 99-2607Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Kabiy̳e caana̳u taa t̳om / Kao Wiyao Blanzoua.

Book/Text

Lomé [Togo] : Les Presses de l'UB, 1993.

1993

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 99-3342Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Regards sur le Borgou : pouvoir et altérité dans une région ouest-africaine / Elisabeth Boesen, Christine Hardung, Richard Kuba (éds.)

Book/Text

Paris ; Montréal : L'Harmattan, 1998.

1998

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 99-632Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Commerce caravanier et relations sociales au Bénin : 1es Wangara du Borgou / Denise Brégand ; préface de Jacques Lombard.

Book/Text

Paris : Harmattan, 1998.

1998

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 99-1700Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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A history of the Mahi peoples from 1774-1920 / by Jessie Gaston Mulira.

Manuscript

1984.

1984

1 item

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FormatManuscriptCall numberSc D 01-308Item locationOffsite

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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Joyau des fiefs yoruba du Borgou : Agbaassa Carnotville : [essai] / Basile Adjou-Moumouni.

Book/Text

Benin : Les Éditions Plurielles, 2016

2016

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc D 17-1318Item locationOffsite

Vodún : secrecy and the search for divine power / Timothy R. Landry.

Book/Text

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]

2019

1 item

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FormatBook/TextCall numberSc E 19-690Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Naked spaces : living is round / directed by Trinh T. Minh-Ha.

VHS

New York : Women Make Movies, 1985.

1985

1 item

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FormatMoving imageCall numberSc Visual VRA-751Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound
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Melville J. and Frances S. Herskovits audio collection.

Spoken word recording

[1986]

1902-1972

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatMixed materialCall numberSc MIRS Herskovits 1986-63Item locationSchomburg Center - Moving Image & Recorded Sound

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Généalogies urbaines à Ajacé, Xogbonu, Porto-Novo : ville de lignages / Sara Tassi.

Book/Text

Genève : MetisPresses, [2023]

2023

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberReCAP 24-1755Item locationOffsite

Vodún [electronic resource] : secrecy and the search for divine power / Timothy R. Landry.

Web Resource

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]

2019

2 resources

Le vodun Xèvioso : culte du principe cosmique transmetteur du feu / Bertrand Ananou ; préface du Pr Philippe Charlier.

Book/Text

Abomey (Bénin) : Les Éditions Naguézé, [2016]

2016-2016

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberBL2532.S5 A53 2016gItem locationOff-site

The ethnographic museum Alexandre Sènou Adande : Training, communication, entertaining in order to value culture in Benin / Cultural Heritage Direction.

Book/Text

Porto-Novo : Ministry of culture, craft and tourism, 2005.

2005

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatBook/TextCall numberGN495.7 .A34 2005Item locationOff-site

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