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      African Traditional Thought and Western Science

      Africa
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          The first part of this paper seeks to develop an approach to traditional African thought already sketched in several previous contributions to this journal. My approach to this topic is strongly influenced by the feeling that social anthropologists have often failed to understand traditional religious thought for two main reasons. First, many of them have been unfamiliar with the theoretical thinking of their own culture. This has deprived them of a vital key to understanding. For certain aspects of such thinking are the counterparts of those very features of traditional thought which they have tended to find most puzzling. Secondly, even those familiar with theoretical thinking in their own culture have failed to recognise its African equivalents, simply because they have been bunded by a difference of idiom. Like Consul Hutchinson wandering among the Bubis of Fernando Po, they have taken a language very remote from their own to be no language at all.

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          Africa
          Africa
          JSTOR
          0001-9720
          1750-0184
          January 1967
          January 2012
          : 37
          : 01
          : 50-71
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          10.2307/1157195
          758b7ade-bcf7-4d01-8205-c0bff17199d3
          © 1967
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