Table of Contents

• Ancestors in Africa - readings and a case study
  • Introduction
  • Driving off the dead.
  • Mambila
  • Summary
  • Myths
  • Càng
  • Rites
  • Skulls and funerals
  • Funerals
• The skull cult of The Chief
  • Dameh
• What the dead do and do not do
• The question of sacrifice and shrines
• Tentative conclusion
• What Mambila could do but have "chosen" not to
• Ancestors, elders and literature
• Bibliography
• Appendices: data
• Myth texts
• Divination myth - Bi's version T407B OhO - 095
• Photos of co sà
• Notes

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