Agathe Schmidt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Agathe Schmidt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Agathe |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1955 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The water of life
SYNOPSIS This article describes a female fertility rite performed at the end of December 1938 by the people of Bamessing village in the Bamenda division of the British Cameroons, West Africa. The master of the ceremonies was a male, Ndefun, and the leader of adolescent girls was a woman, Funwe. The object of the ceremony which no male other than Ndefun may attend, is to wash away in a stream issuing from the fertility shrine of Fun‐beko the guilt…
Some notes on the influence of religion on economics in a Tikar subtribe, West‐Africa
SYNOPSIS The author is interested in the relation which exists between the cultural main‐factors: religion; economics, social organization and starts with some information on what has been done in this connection, then restricts herself to her own investigations of 1938 and 1939 on the Nsei, in the Bamenda Province of the British Cameroons still living under old traditional conditions. The economics of this tribe are mostly self‐supporting. Money…
The water of life
SYNOPSIS This article describes a female fertility rite performed at the end of December 1938 by the people of Bamessing village in the Bamenda division of the British Cameroons, West Africa. The master of the ceremonies was a male, Ndefun, and the leader of adolescent girls was a woman, Funwe. The object of the ceremony which no male other than Ndefun may attend, is to wash away in a stream issuing from the fertility shrine of Fun‐beko the guilt…
Some notes on the influence of religion on economics in a Tikar subtribe, West‐Africa
SYNOPSIS The author is interested in the relation which exists between the cultural main‐factors: religion; economics, social organization and starts with some information on what has been done in this connection, then restricts herself to her own investigations of 1938 and 1939 on the Nsei, in the Bamenda Province of the British Cameroons still living under old traditional conditions. The economics of this tribe are mostly self‐supporting. Money…
Some notes on the influence of religion on economics in a Tikar subtribe, West‐Africa
SYNOPSIS The author is interested in the relation which exists between the cultural main‐factors: religion; economics, social organization and starts with some information on what has been done in this connection, then restricts herself to her own investigations of 1938 and 1939 on the Nsei, in the Bamenda Province of the British Cameroons still living under old traditional conditions. The economics of this tribe are mostly self‐supporting. Money…
The water of life
SYNOPSIS This article describes a female fertility rite performed at the end of December 1938 by the people of Bamessing village in the Bamenda division of the British Cameroons, West Africa. The master of the ceremonies was a male, Ndefun, and the leader of adolescent girls was a woman, Funwe. The object of the ceremony which no male other than Ndefun may attend, is to wash away in a stream issuing from the fertility shrine of Fun‐beko the guilt…
African Studies and Ethnography (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Adultery (1 work) · African history and culture studies (1 work)