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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY OF AFRICANA
For 1915
Richard F. Carroll
The subj oined bibliography makes no pretense at providing the reader with a complete
list of the Africana of 1915. Any attempt to make such a list would be invalidated by
the suspension of many periodical publications because of the war, and by the loss and
uncertainty of the mails owing to the same cause. In some cases it is well-nigh impossible
even to learn whether or not journals have come out in course, or have temporarily ceased
to appear.
But aside from these unusual drawbacks, there is another and quite different reason
for which many recent African items have not been here mentioned. In preparing this
list of books and articles I have had in view a single aim; to present only those African
titles which would prove useful to the anthropologist. Thus it has come about that many
titles noted in the first draft of the bibliography were later struck out — I have, for example,
only entered such Egyptian items as deal with the primitive aspects of Nilotic culture,
here confining myself to notices of books and papers dealing with Egyptian religion,
philology, folklore, physical anthropology, and archaeology. Similarly, many important
works of a historical or political character have intentionally been omitted. On the other
hand, not a few books or papers of a very popular nature have been listed because they
contained either illustrations or scattering textual notices of a sort calculated to throw
some light on native life or regional environment.
It is hoped that despite the difficulties attending all bibliographic work under present
conditions, the list may prove serviceable; and that any important titles which have
unavoidably been overlooked will find their place in an addendum to be published with
the Selected Bibliography in the next annual volume of the Harvard African Studies,
Aly chief sources have been as follows:
Peabody Museum Library, Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.
Library of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, Boston, Mass.
Library of the Andover Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Mass.
For 1915
Richard F. Carroll
The subj oined bibliography makes no pretense at providing the reader with a complete
list of the Africana of 1915. Any attempt to make such a list would be invalidated by
the suspension of many periodical publications because of the war, and by the loss and
uncertainty of the mails owing to the same cause. In some cases it is well-nigh impossible
even to learn whether or not journals have come out in course, or have temporarily ceased
to appear.
But aside from these unusual drawbacks, there is another and quite different reason
for which many recent African items have not been here mentioned. In preparing this
list of books and articles I have had in view a single aim; to present only those African
titles which would prove useful to the anthropologist. Thus it has come about that many
titles noted in the first draft of the bibliography were later struck out — I have, for example,
only entered such Egyptian items as deal with the primitive aspects of Nilotic culture,
here confining myself to notices of books and papers dealing with Egyptian religion,
philology, folklore, physical anthropology, and archaeology. Similarly, many important
works of a historical or political character have intentionally been omitted. On the other
hand, not a few books or papers of a very popular nature have been listed because they
contained either illustrations or scattering textual notices of a sort calculated to throw
some light on native life or regional environment.
It is hoped that despite the difficulties attending all bibliographic work under present
conditions, the list may prove serviceable; and that any important titles which have
unavoidably been overlooked will find their place in an addendum to be published with
the Selected Bibliography in the next annual volume of the Harvard African Studies,
Aly chief sources have been as follows:
Peabody Museum Library, Cambridge, Mass.
Harvard College Library, Cambridge, Mass.
Library of the American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, Boston, Mass.
Library of the Andover Theological Seminary, Cambridge, Mass.