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Of life and health : the language of art and religion in an African medical system / Alexis Beykane Tengan.
Penn Museum Library GN655.G45 T46 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tengan, Alexis B. (Alexis Bekyane), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dagaaba (African people)--Social life and customs.
- Dagaaba (African people).
- Dagaaba (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.
- Healing--Ghana--Religious aspects.
- Healing.
- Healing--Burkina Faso--Religious aspects.
- Ritual--Ghana.
- Ritual.
- Ritual--Burkina Faso.
- Healing--Religious aspects.
- Manners and customs.
- Burkina Faso.
- Ghana.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
- 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).
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tengan, Alexis B. (Alexis Bekyane). Of life and health.
- ISBN:
- 9781789201017
- 1789201012
- OCLC:
- 1035460989
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