UNDER THE KAPOK TREE- Identity and Difference in BENG thought (1997)
by Alma Gottlieb
Published by University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1996. Paperback. Condition: NEAR FINE- clean, tight, unmarked.
Gottlieb explores ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Côte d'Ivoire. (IVORY COAST) Deploying symbolic and postmodern perspectives, she highlights the dynamically paired notions of identity and difference, two principles fundamental in the Beng worldview and symbolized by the kapok tree planted at the center of every Beng village.
