Ritual : power, healing, and community / by Malidoma Patrice Somé.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Somé, Malidoma Patrice, 1956-

Contributor:

Joanna Banks Collection of African American Books (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Echoes of the ancestors

The African Teachings of the Dagara

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Somé, Malidoma Patrice, 1956-.

Somé, Malidoma Patrice.

Ritual.

Rites and ceremonies.

Dagaaba (African people)--Rites and ceremonies.

Dagaaba (African people).

Ceremonial Behavior.

Medical Subjects:

Ceremonial Behavior.

Penn Provenance:

Banks, Joanna (donor) (Banks Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 103 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Penguin/Arkana, 1997.

Summary:

In what Robert Bly calls", the greatest and most detailed book about ritual that I have ever read", Malidoma Patrice Some--who is well-versed in the languages of psychology and comparative literature, as well as ancient mythology, healing and divination--bridges paths between the ancient tribal world of the West African Dagara culture and modern Western society.

Contents:

Introduction / Michael Meade

My beginnings in ritual

Ritual, ceremony and us

The hidden space of ritual

Ritual and community

Models of ritual and constraints of the modern world

The structure of ritual

A ritual sampler: the funeral and the language of grief

The farewell.

Notes:

Originally published: Swan Raven, 1993.

"Published in Arkana 1997."

"Set in Garamond."

"Designed by Gary Hardin and Marcia Barrentine."

"Cover design by Gail Belenson. Cover illustration by Stephan Daigle."

Publisher's advertisements: [1] page at end.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center Banks Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Joanna Banks.

Other Format:

Online version: Somé, Malidoma Patrice, 1956- Ritual.

ISBN:

0140195580

9780140195583

OCLC:

38049815