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Author:

Tengan, Alexis B. (Alexis Bekyane), author.

Title:

Of life and health : the language of art and religion in an African medical system / Alexis Beykane Tengan.

Publisher:

Berghahn Books,

Copyright Date:

2019

Description:

viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Subject:

Dagaaba (African people)--Social life and customs.
Dagaaba (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.
Healing--Ghana--Religious aspects.
Healing--Burkina Faso--Religious aspects.
Ritual--Ghana.
Ritual--Burkina Faso.
Dagaaba (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.
Healing--Religious aspects.
Ritual.
Burkina Faso.
Ghana.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Scientific language, knowledge frames and ways of reasoning -- Life animation and transmission: the language of the ancestors -- Life resources, sustenance, and growth: the language of the spirit and life force of nature (kantanme) -- Health delivery and healing processes: the white bagr healing cult and the food domain -- Health delivery and healing processes: the black bagr healing cult and the domain of the inedible and undomesticated -- Language and cultural ideation on healing: the healer and the healing cult (Tibr) -- The healer, the healing cult and the patient observed -- Conclusion. Nature and the cosmic life in elements: (animated beings, objects and things).

ISBN:

1789201012
9781789201017

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1035460989

LCCN:

2018026906

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)