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Title:

Creativity of power : cosmology and action in African societies / edited by W. Arens and Ivan Karp.

Publisher:

Smithsonian Institution Press,

Copyright Date:

c1989

Description:

xxix, 315 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Ethnology--Africa.
Power (Social sciences)
Political anthropology--Africa.
Africa--Social life and customs.
Africa--Politics and government--1960-
Social aspects, history--Power--Social aspects, history
Ethnologie--Afrique.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
Anthropologie politique--Afrique.
Afrique--Mœurs et coutumes.
Macht.

Other Authors:

Arens, W., 1940-
Karp, Ivan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies.

Contents:

Introduction / W. Arens and Ivan Karp -- The power of incest / W. Arens -- Midnight charters : Musa Wo and Mende myths of chaos / Donald J. Cosentino -- The power of articulation / Bonnie L. Wright -- Sources of power in Akuropon-Akuapem : ambiguity in classification / Michelle Gilbert -- Power and capacity in rituals of possession / Ivan Karp -- Power begins at home : the symbolism of male-female commensality in Ufipa / Roy Willis -- Dance and power in Bafut (Cameroon) / Ronald K. Engard -- Ritual and ambiguity in Lugbara society / John Middleton -- Power, sanctity, and symbolism in the political economy of the Nilotes / Aidan Southall -- The sacred and the secret : order and chaos in Tigray medicine and politics / Dan Bauer.
Witches, kings, and the sacrifice of identity, or The power of paradox and the paradox of power among the Beng of Ivory Coast / Alma Gottlieb -- Transfers of power : the king and the secret society in a time of crisis / Victoria Ebin -- Ritual rivalry among the Ben'Ekie / Nancy J. Fairley.

ISBN:

9780874746174 (alk. paper)
0874746175 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

89032176

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)