Table of Contents:
  • Chaos, Order and Communion in the Creation and Sustenance of Life / Jacobson-Widding, Anita ; Beek, Walter von
  • The Fertility of Incest / Jacobson-Widding, Anita)
  • Fertility and Social Order among the Winye Gurunsi of Burkina Faso / Jacob, Jean-Pierre
  • Ancestors, Earth and Fertility in the Belief of Some Voltaic Peoples / Zwernemann, Jürgen
  • The Mbwoolu Cosmogony and Healing Cult among the Northern Yaka of Zaire / Devisch, René
  • Mats and Milk Pots : The domain of Borana women / Dahl, Gudrun
  • Kifudu : A female fertility cult among the Giriama / Udvardy, Monica
  • The Conquest of Land and the Conquest of Fertility : A Theme in Oromo culture / Hultin, Jan
  • Seeds and Soil : The quest for life and the domestication of fertility in Sukuma-Nyamwezi thought and reality / Brandström, Per
  • The Appropriation of Fertility : Descent and sex among the Gusii / Hakansson, Thomas
  • Milk, Meat and Blood : Diet as a cultural code among the pastoral Maasai / Arhem, Kaj
  • Oromo Blessings and Greetings / Baxter, Paul
  • Fertility as a Mode of Thought : Some Zulu examples / Berglund, Axel-Ivar
  • Putting the World in Order in Avatime, Ghana / Brydon, Lynne
  • Harmony versus Autonomy : Models of agricultural fertility among the Dogon and the Kapsiki / Beek, Walter van
  • We have no Cash Crops any More : Agriculture as a cultural system in Uganda, 1969-1987 / Whyte, Michael
  • Living Poor While Being Rich : The pastoral folk economy / Riesman, Paul.