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Father Henry Gravrand (France, 1921 – Abbey of Latrun, Palestine, 11 July 2003[1]) was a French Catholic missionary to Africa and an anthropologist who has written extensively on Serer religion and culture. He was one of the leading pioneers of interfaith dialog and believed that African religion was the "'first covenant between God and man".[1] His works about the Serer people are cited by other historians and scholars writing on Serer history, religion and culture, for instance Martin A. Klein,[2] Charles Becker,[3] Alioune Sarr, Marguerite Dupire,[4] Issa Laye Thiaw,[5] etc. Papa Massène Sene argues that his approach lacks scientific rigor and include fundamental linguistic and historical errors.[6] Alioune Sarr noted that Gravrand reported an oral tradition describing what he called the "Battle of Troubang", a dynastic war between the two maternal royal houses of Ñaanco and the Guelowar, an off-shot and relatives of the Ñaanco (Nyanthio or Nyanco) maternal dynasty of Kaabu, in modern-day Guinea Bissau.[7][8] According to Charles Becker, Gravrand is confusing a description of the 1867 (or 1865) Battle of Kansala.[9]
^ ab"Charbel Gravand – Babelio". www.babelio.com (in French). Retrieved 19 April 2018.
^Klein, Martin A., "Islam and Imperialism in Senegal Sine-Saloum, 1847–1914", Edinburgh University Press (1968), pp x, 12–13, 92, 244, 248, 271
^Crétois, Léonce; & Becker, Charles; "Le vocabulaire sereer de la faune", (Editor: Charles Becker), Centre de linguistique appliquée de Dakar (1983), p. 24
^Dupire, Marguerite, "Sagesse sereer : essais sur la pensée sereer ndut", Karthala, Paris, 1994, pp. 7, 91, 111, 118–119, 142, 153, ISBN 2-86537-487-4
^Thiaw, Issa Laye, "La femme Seereer", Sénégal, 2005, Sociétés africaines et diaspora, Edition L'harmattan, pp. 40, 125–6, 260, ISBN 2-7475-8907-2
^Papa Massène SENE, "À la découverte de la civilisation Sereer avec le R.P. Henry Gravrand" Archived 25 September 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Ethiopiques, no. 39, 4th quarter, 1984
^Innes, Gordon, Suso, Bamba, Kanute, Banna, Kanute, Dembo, ""Sunjata: three Mandinka versions", p. 128, Psychology Press, 1974. ISBN 0-7286-0003-X
^Fage, J. D., Oliver, Roland Anthony, "The Cambridge history of Africa", p. 282, Cambridge University Press, 1975. ISBN 0-521-20413-5
^Sarr, Alioune, Histoire du Sine-Saloum (Sénégal) Introduction, bibliographie et notes par Charles Becker. 1986–87, p. 19
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where the Cekeen Tumulus are located. Scholars such as Charles Becker, HenryGravrand, and Victor Martin suggest that these monuments were built by the Serer...
Introduction to World Mythology. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0-7674-1957-4. (HenryGravrand, "La civilisation Sereer -Pangool") [in] Universität Frankfurt am Main...
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alleged Battle of Troubang (1335) in Kaabu. In reporting this tradition, HenryGravrand did not notice that this the description of the Battle of Troubang is...
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