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Village of curers and assassins : on the production of Fala Kpelle cosmological categories / Beryl Larry Bellman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bellman, Beryl, 1941-
- Series:
- Approaches to Semiotics ; 39
- Approaches to Semiotics [AS] ; 39
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Folk classification--Liberia.
- Folk classification.
- Kpelle (African people)--Religion.
- Kpelle (African people).
- Kpelle (African people)--Social life and customs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (196 pages)
- Edition:
- Reprint 2012
- Place of Publication:
- The Hague : Mouton, 1975.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Front matter
- ACKNOWLEDGMENT
- PREFACE
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART ONE. SUBJECTIVE MEANING OF FALA KPELLE COSMOLOGICAL CATEGORIES: THE FORMAL PROPERTIES OF FALA KPELLE CONSOCIATE INTERACTIONS
- INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE
- 1. THE REFLEXIVITY OF IFA MO TO THE HISTORICITY OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MEMBERS
- 2. TO KNOW ONESELF
- 3. KNOWING ONESELF AND THE PRACTICE OF IFA MO
- 4. THE ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE
- PART TWO. OBJECTIVE MEANINGS OF KPELLE COSMOLOGICAL CATEGORIES
- INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO
- 5. THE MEANING OF SALE OR MEDICINES
- 6. THE OBJECTIVE MEANING OF THE KPELLE SPIRIT WORLD
- 7. THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE DREAM AND WAKING WORLDS
- APPENDIX 1. THE SUCROMU TOWN PALAVER
- APPENDIX 2. FALA KPELLE KINSHIP CATEGORIES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9783110874631
- 3110874636
- OCLC:
- 922945341
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