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God, ancestor or creator? aspects of traditional belief in Ghana, Nigeria & Sierra Leone.

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Harlow, Longmans, 1970.

1970

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc 299.6-S (Sawyerr, H. God, ancestor or creator)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference
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Home culture influences on learning about natural phenomena in school: a case study among the Kpamende of Sierra Leone.

Text

Urbana, Ill. 1974.

1974

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-1786Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Deep Mende : religious interactions in a changing African rural society / by Darrell Reeck.

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Leiden : Brill, 1976.

1976

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 77-196Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Deep Mende : religious interactions in a changing African rural society / by Darrell Reeck.

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Leiden : Brill, 1976.

1976

1 item

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The contribution of associations to evolutionary changes in culture in four African societies [microform] / by Zachary Gussow.

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1954.

1954

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Micro R-4043Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Defiant maids and stubborn farmers : tradition and invention in Mende story performance / Donald Cosentino.

Text

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.

1982

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberJFE 84-2053Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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Bundu : Buschteufel im Land der Mende / Burkhard Gottschalk.

Text

Düsseldorf : U. Gottschalk, c1990.

1990

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 91-38Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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[Blondiau theatre arts collection] [realia].

Artifact

1895-1927.

1895-1927

1 resource

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Thompson in Africa, or, An account of the missionary labors, sufferings, travels, and observations, of George Thompson in Western Africa, at the Mendi mission.

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New York : Printed for the author, 1852.

1852-1851

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc Rare 266-T (Thompson, G. Thompson in Africa: or, An account)Item locationSchomburg Center - Manuscripts & Archives

The springs of Mende belief and conduct, a discussion of the influence of the belief in the supernatural among the Mende [by] W. T. Harris and Harry Sawyerr.

Text

Freetown, Sierra Leone University Press; [distributed by the Oxford University Press, New York] 1968.

1968

3 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc 299.6-H (Harris, W. Springs of Mende Belief)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Mende of Sierra Leone: a West African people in transition, by Kenneth Little.

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London, Routledge & K. Paul; New York, Humanities Press, 1967.

1967

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc 572.966-L (Little, K. Mende of Sierra Leone. Rev. ed.)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The Mende of Sierra Leone : a West African people in transition / by K.L. Little.

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London : Routledge & K. Paul, 1951.

1951

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc 572.966-L (Little, K. Mende of Sierra Leone)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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A view of Sierra Leone / by Frederick William Hugh Migeod.

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New York : Brentano's, 1927.

1927

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc 916.64-M (Migeod, F. View of Sierra Leone)Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Rainforest relations : gender and resource use among the Mende of Gola, Sierra Leone / Melissa Leach.

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Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, London, c1994.

1994

2 items

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 95-328Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Some medicinal plant recipes of the Mende, Sierra Leone / Guy Barnish, S.K. Samai.

Text

Bo, Sierra Leone : Medical Research Council Laboaratory, [1992]

1992

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 95-94Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Dealing with displacement : refugee-host relations, food and forest resources in Sierra Leonean Mende communities during the Liberian influx, 1990-91 / by Melissa Leach.

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Brighton : University of Sussex, Institute of Development Studies, 1992.

1992

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberJFG 96-799Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 - Mezzanine

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Representing woman : Sande masquerades of the Mende of Sierra Leone / Ruth B. Phillips.

Text

Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1995.

1995

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 96-149Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Klo klo l̳o a nja ve = Little drops of water flood the river.

Text

[Freetown, Sierra Leone : P.E.A., 1991?]

1991

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 99-1116Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Musique traditionnelles [sound recording].

Audio

France : Ocora : distribution Harmonia Mundi, p1992.

1992-1976

1 item

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FormatAudioCall number*LDC 7041 (F)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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"Hammocks belong to men, stools to women" : constructing and contesting gender domains in a Mende village (Sierra Leone, West Africa) / by Mariane C. Ferme.

Text

1992.

1992

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 01-806Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Residence and gender relations in a Mende village / by M. Kiran Cunningham.

Text

1991.

1991

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 06-2845Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Toward a Mende Christian theology / Emmanuel Munda Wilson.

Text

1982.

1982

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 04-1278Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Form and meaning of masks in three Mende societies / by William L. Hommel.

Text

1981.

1982-1981

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 01-633Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The conceptualization of family-size goals among the Mende in Sierra Leone and the Vai in Liberia / by S. Momolu Getaweh.

Text

1978.

1978

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 01-2132Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Patterns in dọmẹisia : the dialectics of Mende narrative performance / by Donald John Cosentino.

Text

1976.

1976

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 01-732Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Factors of limitation in the art forms of the Bundu Society of the Mende in Sierra Leone / by Josephus V.O. Richards.

Text

1970.

1970

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc D 06-2855Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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An introduction to the precolonial history of the Mende of Sierra Leone / Arthur Abraham.

Text

Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2003.

2003

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 04-472Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Dialectics of evangelization : a critical examination of Methodist evangelization of the Mende people in Sierra Leone / Sahr John Yambasu.

Text

Legon, Ghana : Legon Theological Studies Series, 2002.

2002

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc C 04-135Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Some names and place names in Mende society (Sierra Leone).

Text

Naimey, Niger : Centre for Linguistic and Historical Studies by Oral Tradition, Organization of African Unity, 1980.

1980

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 05-425Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Divinition [sic] in Mende society (Sierra Leone).

Text

Niamey, Niger : Centre for Linguistic and Historical Studies by Oral Tradition, Organization of African Unity, [1980]

1980

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 05-426Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Bundu, Sowei headpieces of the Sande society of West Africa : the Imperato family collection / Gavin H. Imperato, Pascal James Imperato.

Text

Bayside : Queensborough Community College; Kilima House Publishers, 2012.

2012

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc F 14-112Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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The underneath of things : violence, history, and the everyday in Sierra Leone / Mariane C. Ferme.

Text

Berkeley: University of California Press, c2001.

2001

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc E 01-1076Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Sandé : société secrète féminine en Sierra Leone et au Libéria / Christiane Kauer, Claude Michalak ; préface de Philippe Charlier.

Text

Montreuil : Gourcuff Gradenigo, [2022]

2022-2022

1 item

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FormatTextCall numberSc+ G 23-30Item locationSchomburg Center - Research & Reference

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Defiant maids and stubborn farmers : tradition and invention in Mende story performance / Donald Cosentino.

Text

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982.

1982

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberGR352.32.M46 C66 1982Item locationOff-site

Some medicinal plant recipes of the Mende, Sierra Leone / Guy Barnish, S.K. Samai.

Text

Bo, Sierra Leone : Medical Research Council Laboaratory, [1992]

1992

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberQK99.S5 B37 1992gItem locationOff-site

Representing woman : Sande masquerades of the Mende of Sierra Leone / Ruth B. Phillips.

Text

Los Angeles, Calif. : UCLA Fowler Museum of Cultural History, 1995.

1995

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberN7397 Si17 P54Item locationOff-site

The Mende of Sierra Leone : a West African people in transition / by Kenneth Little.

Text

London : Routledge & K. Paul; New York : Humanities P., 1967.

1967

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberDT516 .L5 1967Item locationOff-site

Musique traditionnelles.

Audio

France : Ocora : Distribution Harmonia Mundi, [1992], ℗1992.

1992-1976

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall numberCD3676Item locationOff-site

Music of the Mende of Sierra Leone.

Audio

Folkways Records, [1965]

1965

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatAudioCall numberL4125 FE4322Item locationOff-site

The Mende of Sierra Leone : a West African people in transition / by K.L. Little.

Text

London : Routledge & K. Paul, 1951.

1951

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall number302.9664 L72Item locationOff-site

A view of Sierra Leone.

Text

New York : Negro Universities Press, [1970]

1970-1926

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberDT516.2 .M5 1970Item locationOff-site

Dialectics of evangelization : a critical examination of Methodist evangelization of the Mende people in Sierra Leone / Sahr John Yambasu.

Text

Legon, Ghana : Legon Theological Studies Series, 2002.

2002

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberBV3630.M4 Y35 2002gItem locationOff-site

The springs of Mende belief and conduct : a discussion of the influence of the belief in the supernatural among the Mende / [by] W. T. Harris and Harry Sawyerr.

Text

Freetown : Sierra Leone University Press; [distributed by the Oxford University Press, New York], 1968.

1968

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberOG26 H317Item locationOff-site

God, ancestor or creator? aspects of traditional belief in Ghana, Nigeria & Sierra Leone.

Text

1970

2 items

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberOG26 S271Item locationOff-site
FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberOG26 S271Item locationOff-site

Deep Mende : religious interactions in a changing African rural society / by Darrell Reeck.

Text

Leiden : Brill, 1976.

1976

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberBL2400 .S85 v.4Item locationOff-site

God, ancestor or creator? : aspects of traditional belief in Ghana, Nigeria & Sierra Leone.

Text

Harlow : Longmans, 1970.

1970

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberBL205 .S39Item locationOff-site

The springs of Mende belief and conduct : a discussion of the influence of the belief in the supernatural among the Mende / [by] W. T. Harris and Harry Sawyerr.

Text

Freetown : Sierra Leone University Press; [distributed by the Oxford University Press, New York], 1968.

1968

1 item

FormatCall numberItem location
FormatTextCall numberBL2480.M4 H3Item locationOff-site

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