Methodological Issues in the Study of 'Traditional' Techniques and Know-How / Goudjinou P. Metinhoue -- 'Traditional' Iron Metallurgy in West Africa / Alexis B.A. Adandé -- 'Rainmakers': Myth and Knowledge in Traditional Atmospheric Management Techniques / Gbénoukpo Bodhou Dah-Lokonon --Traditional Number Systems and Modern Arithmetic / Toussaint Yaovi Tchitchi --Fa Ritual: A Stochastic Process: Understanding the Geomantic Cults of Coastal Benin / Victor Houndonougbo -- Epistemological Reflections on Hausa Zoological Names / J.D. Penel -- Fruits, Seeds ans Miscellaneous Ingredients Used in the Pharmaceutical Practice of Benin / Simone de Souza.

Traditional Models of Mental Health and Illness in Benin / Gualbert Ahyi -- Foreign Objects in Human Bodies: A Surgeon's Report / Henry-Valre T. Kiniffo -- Links between Psychosomatic Medicine and Sorcery / Clement T. Adjido -- Graphic Representational Systems in Precolonial Africa / Albert Bienvenu Akoha -- Writing and Oral Tradition in the Transmission of Knowledge / Francois C. Dossou.