Grafting Old Rootstock: Studies In Culture And Religion Of The Chamba, Duru, Fula, And Gbaya Of Cameroun (sil International Publications In Ethnograph [Paperback]

Studies the culture and religion of the Chamba, Duru, Gula, and Gbaya of Cameroon.

Discusses attempts of expatriates and Africans to ask questions, to learn, and to interpret what is important in the lives and traditions of African societies in the light of the Christian Church.

Table of contents

Preface by Philip Noss
Acknowledgments
Map
Introduction by Wendell Frerichs

????????????Culture and Society
????????????Poem: The Stranger by Philip Noss
????????????Introduction

1. The Stranger among the Chamba
   ???by Bouba Bernard
2. Gbaya Proverbs and Hospitality
   ???by Dala Marcel
3. The Danger of Courtesy
   ???by Philip Noss
4. Reflections on the Life of the European
   ???by Bouba Bernard
5. Gbaya Marriage
   ???by Alice Eastwold
6. The Gbaya Dance of Diang
   ???by Philip Noss
7. Ordinary and Extraordinary People
   ???by Kombo Samuel
8. Sickness, Medicine, and Sorcery in Duru Society
   ???by Kadia Matthiew, Lee Bohnhoff
9. Sickness, Misfortune, and Healing among the Gbaya
   ???by Cecilia Noss
10. Tradition and Modernism on Horseback
    ???by Badoma Andr?

Faith and Belief
Poem: Everthing Tries by Haldor Jon Noss

11. The Gbaya and the Sudan Mission: 1924 to the Present
    ???by Philip Burnham
12. An Interpretation of Gbaya Religious Practice
    ???by Philip Noss
13. Social Pressure for Religious Conformity in the Fulani Community
    ???by Ronald Nelson
14. Is God V n?b or Yamma?
    ???by Bouba Bernard
15. The Chamba Rite of V ma
    ???by Bouba Bernard
16. LaBi: A Gbaya Initiation Rite
    ???by Thomas Christensen
17. Rites of Reconciliation in Traditional Gbaya Society
    ???by Thomas Christensen
18. Wanto and Crocodile: The Story of Joseph