Records relating to "Table d'enquète sur les moeurs et les coutumes indigènes," 1950-1960 bulk 1951-1952.

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Records relating to "Table d'enquète sur les moeurs et les coutumes indigènes," 1950-1960 bulk 1951-1952.

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Collection consists of a typed carbon set of responses to a 1950 inquiry sent by the White Fathers to its missions in West and Central Africa. The inquiry's purpose was to gather ethnographic data from each mission and to increase priests' familiarity with the customs of the indigenous people.

11 boxes (5.5 linear ft.)

University of California, Los Angeles

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SNAC Resource ID: 7409268

University of California, Los Angeles

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White Fathers

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Founded in 1868 by Charles M. Lavigerie, Archbishop of Algiers, the White Fathers is a Catholic society also known as the Society of Missionaries of Africa; after Lavigerie died in 1892, Léon Livinhac became superior general of the White Fathers; in 1908, the Holy See approved the society's constitutions; members of the White Fathers are bound by an oath to the establishment of the Catholic Church on the African continent. From the description of Records relating to "Table d'enquèt...