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Excerpt from Mancala, the National Game of Africa
Thecomparative study of games is one that promises an important contribution to the history of culture. The questions involved in' their diffusion over the earth are among the Vital ones that confound the ethnologist. Their origins are lost in the unwritten history of the child hood of man. Mancala is a game that is remarkable for its peculiar distribution, which seems to mark the limits of Arab culture, and which has just penetrated our own continent after having served for ages to divert the inhabitants of nearly half the inhabited area of the globe.
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Thecomparative study of games is one that promises an important contribution to the history of culture. The questions involved in' their diffusion over the earth are among the Vital ones that confound the ethnologist. Their origins are lost in the unwritten history of the child hood of man. Mancala is a game that is remarkable for its peculiar distribution, which seems to mark the limits of Arab culture, and which has just penetrated our own continent after having served for ages to divert the inhabitants of nearly half the inhabited area of the globe.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Stewart Culin
Hardback
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780265403754
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.5 cm
Page Count - 29
Paperback
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ISBN - 9781333843823
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.2 cm
Page Count - 31
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