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First published in 1904, "Fetichism in West Africa" (full name: "Fetichism in West Africa: Forty Years' Observation of Native Customs and Superstitions") is a book by missionary Reverend Robert Hamill Nassau that is considered one of the earliest studies of traditional religion on West Africa.
"Fetichism in West Africa" relates the facts which Nassau discovered over the course of many years concerning traditional religions and the practice of sorcery in West Africa and how it related to the everyday lives of the people of that region. John Cinnamon suggests that 'when Nassau was able to refrain from the constant, invidious comparison between enlightened Christian truth and degraded African wickedness, his observations contain glimmers of ethnographic insight'.
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GenrePsychology, Spirituality and Religion, History
Length14 hrs 59 mins
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Publish dateNov 5, 2020
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Preface
2Chapter 1. Constitution Of Native African Society--Sociology
3Chapter 2. The Idea Of God--Religion
4Chapter 3. Polytheism--Idolatry
5Chapter 4. Spiritual Beings In African Religion
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6Chapter 5. Spiritual Beings In Africa-Their Classes And Functions
7Chapter 6. Fetichism--Its Philosophy--A Physical Salvation--Charms And Amulets
8Chapter 7. The Fetich-A Worship
9Chapter 8. The Fetich--Witchcraft--A White Art--Sorcery
10Chapter 9. The Fetich--Witchcraft--A Black Art--Demonology
11Chapter 10. Fetichism--A Government
12Chapter 11. The Fetich--Its Relation To The Family
13Chapter 12. The Fetich--Its Relations To Daily Work And Occupations And To The Needs Of Life
14Chapter 13. The Fetich--Superstition In Customs
15Chapter 14. Fetich--Its Relation To The Future Life--Ceremonies At Deaths And Funerals
16Chapter 15. Fetichism--Some Of Its Practical Effects
17Chapter 16. Tales Of Fetich Based On Fact
18Chapter 17. Fetich In Folk-Lore