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Africa and the discovery of America. / By Leo Wiener ...
LIBRA 973.1 .W633 v.1-3
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LIBRA E57 .W64 v.3
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wiener, Leo, 1862-1939.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- America--Antiquities.
- America.
- Antiquities.
- Africa--Antiquities.
- Africa.
- America--Discovery and exploration.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Columbus, Christopher.
- Indians.
- Indigenous peoples--Languages.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Indians--Languages.
- Mexico--Antiquities.
- Mexico.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 3 volumes : frontispiece, plates, maps, facsimile ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa. : Innes & Sons, 1920-22.
- Contents:
- v. 1. Foreword. Sources quoted (p. xi-xix) The journal of the first voyage and the first letter of Columbus. The second voyage. Tobacco. The bread roots.
- v. 2. Foreword. Sources quoted (p. xi-xxii) Cotton. The sovereign remedy. Bead money.
- v. 3. Foreword. Sources quoted (p. xiii-xxi) The history of copper and iron. The gypsies in Europe. The gypsies in Africa. African fetishism and totemism. The Bori. Fetishism and Sufism. The Caraibs. The Areyto. Feathers and masks. The Caraib social order. The Boratio. The Mandingo elements in the Mexican civilization. The Mexican New Year. Conclusions.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Wiener, Leo, 1862-1939. Africa and the discovery of America.
- OCLC:
- 2466094
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