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Endogenous knowledge : research trails

Print Book, English, 1997
CODESRIA, Dakar, Senegal, 1997
ix, 376 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
9782869780408, 9782869780415, 2869780400, 2869780419
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Methodological Issues in the Study of 'Traditional' Techniques and Know-How / Goudjinou P. Metinhoue
'Traditional' Iron Metallurgy in West Africa / Alexis B.A. Adandé
'Rainmakers': Myth and Knowledge in Traditional Atmospheric Management Techniques / Gbénoukpo Bodhou Dah-Lokonon
Traditional Number Systems and Modern Arithmetic / Toussaint Yaovi Tchitchi
Fa Ritual: A Stochastic Process: Understanding the Geomantic Cults of Coastal Benin / Victor Houndonougbo
Epistemological Reflections on Hausa Zoological Names / J.D. Penel
Fruits, Seeds ans Miscellaneous Ingredients Used in the Pharmaceutical Practice of Benin / Simone de Souza. Traditional Models of Mental Health and Illness in Benin / Gualbert Ahyi
Foreign Objects in Human Bodies: A Surgeon's Report / Henry-Valre T. Kiniffo
Links between Psychosomatic Medicine and Sorcery / Clement T. Adjido
Graphic Representational Systems in Precolonial Africa / Albert Bienvenu Akoha
Writing and Oral Tradition in the Transmission of Knowledge / Francois C. Dossou