Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE READER
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II SIERRA LEONE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS
- CHAPTER III AFRICAN CHARACTERISTICS
- CHAPTER IV FISHING IN WEST AFRICA
- CHAPTER V FETISH
- CHAPTER VI SCHOOLS OF FETISH
- CHAPTER VII FETISH AND WITCHCRAFT
- CHAPTER VIII AFRICAN MEDICINE
- CHAPTER IX THE WITCH DOCTOR
- CHAPTER X EARLY TRADE IN WEST AFRICA
- CHAPTER XI FRENCH DISCOVERY OF WEST AFRICA
- CHAPTER XII COMMERCE IN WEST AFRICA
- CHAPTER XIII THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM
- CHAPTER XIV THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM IN WEST AFRICA
- CHAPTER XV MORE OF THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM
- CHAPTER XVI THE CLASH OF CULTURES
- CHAPTER XVII AN ALTERNATIVE PLAN
- CHAPTER XVIII AFRICAN PROPERTY
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
PREFACE TO THE READER
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 December 2011
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE TO THE READER
- Contents
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CHAPTER I INTRODUCTORY
- CHAPTER II SIERRA LEONE AND ITS SURROUNDINGS
- CHAPTER III AFRICAN CHARACTERISTICS
- CHAPTER IV FISHING IN WEST AFRICA
- CHAPTER V FETISH
- CHAPTER VI SCHOOLS OF FETISH
- CHAPTER VII FETISH AND WITCHCRAFT
- CHAPTER VIII AFRICAN MEDICINE
- CHAPTER IX THE WITCH DOCTOR
- CHAPTER X EARLY TRADE IN WEST AFRICA
- CHAPTER XI FRENCH DISCOVERY OF WEST AFRICA
- CHAPTER XII COMMERCE IN WEST AFRICA
- CHAPTER XIII THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM
- CHAPTER XIV THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM IN WEST AFRICA
- CHAPTER XV MORE OF THE CROWN COLONY SYSTEM
- CHAPTER XVI THE CLASH OF CULTURES
- CHAPTER XVII AN ALTERNATIVE PLAN
- CHAPTER XVIII AFRICAN PROPERTY
- APPENDIX
- INDEX
- Plate section
Summary
I pray you who may come across this book to distinguish carefully between the part of it written by others and that written by me.
Anything concerning West Africa written by M. le Comte C. de Cardi or Mr. John Harford, of Bristol, does not require apology and explanation; while anything written by me on this, or any subject, does. M. le Comte de Cardi possesses an unrivalled knowledge of the natives of the Niger Delta, gained, as all West Coasters know, by personal experience, and gained in a way whereby he had to test the truth of his ideas about these natives, not against things said concerning them in books, but against the facts themselves, for years; and depending on the accuracy of his knowledge was not a theory, but his own life and property. I have always wished that men having this kind of first-hand, well-tested knowledge regarding West Africa could be induced to publish it for the benefit of students, and for the foundation of a true knowledge concerning the natives of West Africa in the minds of the general public, feeling assured that if we had this class of knowledge available, the student of ethnology would be saved from many fantastic theories, and the general public enabled to bring its influence to bear in the cause of justice, instead of in the cause of fads.
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- West African Studies , pp. vii - xviiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1899