Short Mambila bibliography

Connell, Bruce, David Zeitlyn, Sascha Griffiths, Laura Hayward, and Marieke Martin. 2021. "Language ecology, language endangerment, and relict languages: Case studies from Adamawa (Cameroon-Nigeria)." Open Linguistics 7 (1): 244-300. https://doi.org/10.1515/opli-2021-0011.
Rehfisch, F. 1956. The Social Structure of a Mambila Village University of London unpublished MA Thesis.
Rehfisch, F. 1960. The Dynamics of Multilinearity on the Mambila Plateau. Africa 3, 246-261.
Rehfisch, F. 1962. Competitive Gift Exchange among the Mambila. Cahiers D’Études Africaines 3(9), 91-103.
Rehfisch, F. 1966. Mambila Marriage Prohibitions & Incest Regulations and the Role System. Journal of Asian and African Studies 1(4), 298-309.
Rehfisch, F. 1969. Death, Dreams and the Ancestors and Mambila Culture. In Man in Africa eds.) M. Douglas, & P. M. Kaberry. London: Tavistock Press.
Rehfisch, F. 1972. The Social Structure of a Mambila Village Zaria: Ahamadu Bello University: Sociology Department (Occ. Paper 2).
Zeitlyn, D. 1991. Do Mambila Cockerels lay eggs? Reflections on knowledge and belief. Journal of the Anthropological Society of Oxford 22(1), 69-64.
Zeitlyn, D. 1992. Un fragment de l'histoire des Mambilas : un texte du Duabang. Journal des Africanistes 62(1), 135-150.
Zeitlyn, D. 1993. Ethnography as Fiction - or the lies we tell one another. International Journal of Moral and Social Studies 8(2), 175-178.
Zeitlyn, D. 1993. Names for things or ideas? Mambila masks, museums, 3medicines2 and the meaning of Sùàgà . Paper presented to the African Studies Association Conference, Boston, 1993.
Zeitlyn, D. 1993. Spiders in and out of Court or 3the long legs of the law.2 Styles of spider divination in their sociological contexts. Africa 63(2), 219-240.
Zeitlyn, D. 1994. Problems of Interpretation: Mambila Figurines and Masquerades. African Arts 27(4), 38-47 & 94.
Zeitlyn, D. 1994. Sua in Somié. Mambila Traditional Religion (Collectanea Instituti Anthropos 41). Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag.
Zeitlyn, D. 1995. Divination as Dialogue: the negotiation of meaning with random responses. In Social Intelligence and Interaction (ed.) E.N. Goody. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Zeitlyn, D. 2012. "Divinatory logics: diagnoses and predictions mediating outcomes". Current Anthropology 53, 525-46. https://doi.org/10.1086/666829.
Zeitlyn, D. 2020. Mambila Divination: Framing Questions, Constructing Answers. London: Routledge.
Zeitlyn, D. 2021. "Divination and Ontologies: A Reflection"". Social Analysis 65, 139-60. https://doi.org/10.3167/sa.2021.650208.


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