Table of Contents
Ancestors in Africa - readings and a case study
Introduction
Driving off the dead.
Mambila
Summary
Myths
Càng
Rites
Skulls and funerals
Funerals
The skull cult of The Chief
Dameh
What the dead do and do not do
The question of sacrifice and shrines
Tentative conclusion
What Mambila could do but have "chosen" not to
Ancestors, elders and literature
Bibliography
Appendices: data
Myth texts
Divination myth - Bi's version T407B OhO - 095
Fieldnotes and photos
Notes