A beautifully illustrated rendering of the famous age old verse also known as ''The Dilly Song'' and 'The Ten Commandments'. Uniquely this edition also contains expert notes on the many variants, distribution (across many lands), centurues-old history and still debated, predominantly religious, meanings. Altigether a most fascinating and inspiring work.
A beautifully illustrated rendering of the famous age old verse also known as ''The Dilly Song'' and 'The Ten Commandments'. Uniquely this edition also contains expert notes on the many variants, distribution (across many lands), centurues-old history and still debated, predominantly religious, meanings. Altigether a most fascinating and inspiring work.
Ruth Finnegan OBE, FBA, Emeritus Professor Open University. Her work has mainly been on oral performance, narrative, the ethnography of music, and communicating (including extra-sensory perception). Her publications include Oral Literature in Africa, The Hidden Musicians, Communicating: the Multiple Modes of Human Communication, Why Do We Quote? and, most recently, the novels Black Inked Pearl, Voyage of Pearl of the Seas, and The Helix Pearl. Born in Ireland, she now lives in Old Bletchley, southern England. Robin Horton, FBA Professor at the University of Port Harcourt in Rivers State, Nigeria, is an English social anthropologist and philosopher who, in a series of influential works since the 1950s, has challenged and expanded views in the study of religion and anthropology--most notably, his celebrated Patterns of Thought in Africa and the West: Essays on Magic, Religion and Science. He has lived in Africa for four decades where he continues to conduct research on African indigenous religions, magic, mythology, and rituals.
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