Publication and Distributions of the English-language translation of Bocar N’Diayes’s Contribution à la connaissance des us et coutumes du Mali (On the Habits and Customs of Mali)

Abstract

On the Habits and Customs of Mali provides an overview of Malian traditions, customs and behaviors in the following fields: general etiquette, hospitality rules, marriage and the matrimonial process, birth and childhood, circumcision and excision, death and funerals, the inheritance process and body modification.