Regional cults / edited by R.P. Werbner

Very good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: xxxvii, 256 pages: illustrations; 24 cm. Notes: '. derives mainly from material presented at a conference on regional cults sponsored by the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth held at Langdale Hall, University of Manchester, March 31st-April 3rd 1976' - title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents: Introduction / Richard P. Werbner -- Ideological change and regional cults: Maraboutism and ties of a "closeness" in Western Morocco / Dave Eickelman -- Communal and individual pilgrimage: the region of Saints' Tombs in South Sinai / Emanuel Marx -- Disparate regional cults and a Unitary field in Zimbabwe / Kingsley Garbett -- Bush Negro regional cults: a materialistic explanation / Bonno Thoden van Velzen -- A continuing dialogue: Prophets and local shrines among the Tonga of Zambia / Elizabeth Colson -- Regional and non-regional cults of affliction in Western Zambia / Wim M.J. van Binsbergen -- Continuity and policy in Southern Africa's High God cult / Richard P. Werbner -- Cult idioms and the dialectics of a region / J.M. Schoffeleers. Subjects: Cults Africa. Religion and sociology Africa. Islam Doctrines. Africa Religion. Genre: Bibliography. Illustrated. 1 Kg.…