African Tales.

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  • Author(s): Lips, Julius E.
  • Source:
    Nation. 3/5/1938, Vol. 146 Issue 10, p278-279. 2p.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      AFRICAN Genesis (Book); BOOKS; FROBENIUS, Leo, 1873-1938; FOX, Douglas C.; TALE (Literary form)
    • Subject Terms:
      AFRICA
    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on the book "African Genesis" by the author Leo Frobenius and Douglas C. Fox. Frobenius's recent book is a selection of African tales chosen from his former German publications of the years 1921-31 and published under a pretentious and misleading title. The tales deal exclusively with the African high cultures of the Berber region, the Sudan, and southern Rhodesia. Since the African high cultures are extraordinarily complex formations which absorbed numerous influences from the Mohammedan, the European, and the Indian cultures, the title of the book seems especially audacious.