Daniel Biebuyck - Lega culture - University of California Press 1973
Lega Culture, Art, Initiation, and Moral Philosophy among a Central African People
The result of many years of field research in the eastern part of Zaire Republic of Central Africa, this volume is a careful analysis of the art, culture and philosophy of the Lega people, as well as the first in-depth analysis of an African semisecret society, the bwami association of the Lega, a complex set of institutions that teach and reward with prestige a highly moral standard of social behavior.
268pp - EN - 18x26cm - hardcover in dustjacket (poor condition) but the clothed jacket and the book himself still in perfect condition
The result of many years of field research in the eastern part of Zaire Republic of Central Africa, this volume is a careful analysis of the art, culture and philosophy of the Lega people, as well as the first in-depth analysis of an African semisecret society, the bwami association of the Lega, a complex set of institutions that teach and reward with prestige a highly moral standard of social behavior.
268pp - EN - 18x26cm - hardcover in dustjacket (poor condition) but the clothed jacket and the book himself still in perfect condition