Religion And Medicine Of The GA People, Margaret Joyce Field

Field, M. J.

London, England, 1961


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Details

Hardcover with dust jacket, 214 pages, folded map, 5.50x8.75 in. [14x22 cm.], B&W photographs. Originally published in 1937 - the present copy a 1961 reprint with a new Preface.

Condition

Minor staining to the front pastedown - endpaper; lower fore-edge corner of pages 173-174 creased. Dust jacket sunned, lightly stained, and chipped at the crown of the spine.

Notes


Anthropological study of the religious beliefs, medical practices, and social customs of the Gã-Adangbe people of coastal Ghana. The work examines public worship, priesthoods, witchcraft beliefs, healing practices, childbirth customs, funerary rites, and related aspects of daily life and social organization.