Description
Ethnographic monograph on Lobi of West Africa (Upper Volta), which relate to some neighboring tribes such as Birifor, Oulé, Dian Gan, Teguessié, Dorossié. This study is divided into seven chapters concerning:
1 – The environment. Its history. Its inhabitants.
2 – Techniques. Industries. Science.
3 – Aesthetics.
4 – The Company.
5 – Economic conditions.
6 – The law and morality.
7 – religion and magic and containing 31 boards inset photographs in fine. The author, Henri Labouret (1878-1959), visited eleven years through the Lobi country. It exposes us, such a direct way possible observations collected in the subdivision of Diébougou and within the circle of Gaoua.