Perception of the invisible : religion, historical semantics and the role of perceptive verbs / edited by Anne Storch.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Storch, Anne

Series:

SUGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika ; Bd. 21.

Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika SUGIA, 0170-5946 ; Bd. 21 (Special v.)

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

African languages--Congresses.

African languages.

Historical linguistics--Social aspects--Africa--Congresses.

Historical linguistics.

Language and culture--Africa--Congresses.

Language and culture.

African languages--Verb--Congresses.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Verb.

Social aspects.

Africa.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

393 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Köln : Köppe, [2010]

Language Note:

Fifteen contributions in English and two in French.

Contents:

Electricity, spirit mediums and the media of spirits / Heike Behrend

Perception of the living dead and the invisible hand in Teso-Turkana / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal

Written pleas to the invisible world : texts as media between living and dead in Pharaonic Egypt / Sylvie Donnat

Spiritual warfare in Igboland, southeast Nigeria / Johannes Harnischfeger

Les plantes et l'invisible chez les Mbuun, Mpiin et Nsong (Bandundu, RD Congo) / Joseph Koni-Muluwa & Koen Bostoen

Imagination and its readings in ancient Egypt / Anja Kootz

Oracles, ancestor cults and letters to the dead : the involvement of the dead in the public and private family affairs in Pharaonic Egypt / Juan-Carlos Moreno García

Taboos and quirks of human behaviour / Keith Allan

Invisible bonds between Kordofan and Dongolawi Nubians according to Tagle oral traditions / Gumma Ibrahim & Marcus Jaeger

Bogon akolesa. Taboos of the Chala. "Why we shouldn't do what we don't do" / Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer

Percevoir le divin, selon le cycle des legends thébaines dans Ovide, Méthamorphoses III / Françoise Labrique

Eyes on top? Culture and the weight of the senses / Walter E.A. van Beek

The sensory world : ideophones in Africa and elsewhere / Roger M. Blench

The "invisible" perception verbs comparison in Mankon and Meta? Succession-induction traditional rites / Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka

Perception verbs and taste adjectives in Kambaata and beyond / Yvonne Treis

Naming the invisible in Bantu languages of Cameroon: on the semantic coherence of nominal class systems / Gratien G. Atindogbé

Water and inversion : African conceptualizations / Anne-Maria Fehn & Anne Storch.

Notes:

"This volume has been compiled from papers and discussions contributed to the international conference "Perception of the invisible: religion, historical semantics and the role of perceptive verbs", which was held at the University of Cologne from November 14 to 17, 2007"--Preface.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9783896456038

3896456032

OCLC:

655257566