Horses, Musicians, & Gods; The Hausa Cult of Possession Trance

Massachussetts: Bergin and Garvey, 1983. First Edition. Octavo. 23.5cm. Publisher's original purple leatherette, titled in gilt to spine and front board. [xivpp] 290pp. Clean and sharp with some bumping to extremities, a very good copy. Internally clean, with review slip (to A B Bookman's Weekly, no less) and blurb tipped in to front pastedown. An informative and highly academic study of the rituals (and notably the musical elements) of the Hausa Bori "cult", the accuracy and detail of which are obviously assisted by the linguistic abilities of Fremont Besmer, who spent considerable time in West Africa following his personal mission to document the subject.