Chapter 3 Suggested Readings, Weblinks, and Other Media

Readings

• Abimbola, Wande. Ifa: An Exposition of Ifa Literary Corpus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.

• Evans-Pritchard, Edward E. Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic among the Azande. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.

• Griaule, Marcel. Conversations with Ogotemmeli. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965.

• Mbiti, John S. African Religions & Philosophy. New York: Doubleday, 1992.

• McCarthy Brown, Karen. Mama Lola: A Voudou Priestess in Brooklyn. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

• Olupona, Jacob K. African Traditional Religions in Contemporary Society. St. Paul, MN: Paragon House, 1998.

• Ray, Benjamin C. African Religions: Symbol, Ritual, and Community. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2000.

Weblinks

• National Museum of African Art—www.nmafa.si.edu 

• Smithsonian African Voices—www.mnh.si.edu/africanvoices/ 

Films

• Witchcraft Among the Azande (1981), 52 min.

• The !Kung San: Resettlement (1988), 28 min.

• N!ai, The Story of a !Kung Woman (1980), 59 min.

• The Cross and the Crossroads (2004), 29 min.

• Divine Horseman: The Living Gods of Haiti (1985), 60 min.

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