Bambara also known as “Bamana”

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Bambara also known as “Bamana” Pitek, Emily

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The Bambara are a group of people living along both banks of the Niger River in West Africa. They live in independent villages, each composed of several families led by a chief and council of elders. The chief's powers and duties are both secular and religious. The Bambara religion is a hybrid of traditional beliefs and practices (ancestor worship and paganism), with Islamic influence. In the case of the Bambara, the religious group is coterminous with the society itself. This entry focuses on the Bambara living along the Niger River from Segou to Bamako around the time of 1902.

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Title	Bambara also known as “Bamana”
Creator	Pitek, Emily
Contributor	Database of Religious History (DRH)
Publisher	Database of Religious History (DRH)
Date Issued	2018-08-02
Description	The Bambara are a group of people living along both banks of the Niger River in West Africa. They live in independent villages, each composed of several families led by a chief and council of elders. The chief's powers and duties are both secular and religious. The Bambara religion is a hybrid of traditional beliefs and practices (ancestor worship and paganism), with Islamic influence. In the case of the Bambara, the religious group is coterminous with the society itself. This entry focuses on the Bambara living along the Niger River from Segou to Bamako around the time of 1902.
Subject	Religion; African Religions; Islamic Traditions; Syncretic Religions
Genre	Other
Type	Text
Language	eng
Date Available	2018-12-11
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Attribution 4.0 International
DOI	10.14288/1.0375675
URI	http://hdl.handle.net/2429/68022
Affiliation	Non UBC
Peer Review Status	Unreviewed
Scholarly Level	Other
Rights URI	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Aggregated Source Repository	DSpace

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