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The healing wisdom of Africa : finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community
- Title
- The healing wisdom of Africa : finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community / Malidoma Patrice Some.
- Author
- Some, Malidoma Patrice, 1956-
- Publication
- New York : J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1999.
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- Description
- 321 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Contents
- pt. 1. Healing in the indigenous world -- Healing, ritual, and community -- The healing power of nature -- Indigenous technologies -- pt. 2. Relationships of healing: the community -- The value of a healthy community -- Mentors and the life of youth -- Elders and the community -- pt. 3. Understanding ritual -- The elements of ritual -- Dagara cosmology and ritual -- Preparing for ritual -- pt. 4. Rituals of healing -- Fire rituals -- Water rituals -- Earth rituals -- Mineral rituals -- Nature rituals -- pt. 5. Healing in the Western world -- Initiation: a response to challenges of the West -- Maintaining community through ritual.
- Call Number
- Sc D 04-282
- ISBN
- 087477991X
- 9780874779912
- LCCN
- 99024829
- OCLC
- 40954224
- Author
- Some, Malidoma Patrice, 1956-
- Title
- The healing wisdom of Africa : finding life purpose through nature, ritual, and community / Malidoma Patrice Some.
- Imprint
- New York : J.P. Tarcher/Putnam, 1999.
- Edition
- 1st trade pbk. ed.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 04-282