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Of life and health : the language of art and religion in an African medical system
- Title
- Of life and health : the language of art and religion in an African medical system / Alexis Beykane Tengan.
- Author
- Tengan, Alexis B. (Alexis Bekyane)
- Publication
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- viii, 242 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Subject
- Dagaaba (African people) > Social life and customs
- Dagaaba (African people) > Rites and ceremonies
- Healing > Ghana > Religious aspects
- Healing > Burkina Faso > Religious aspects
- Ritual > Ghana
- Ritual > Burkina Faso
- Spiritual healing
- Medicine > Religious aspects
- Healing > Religious aspects
- Ritual
- Burkina Faso
- Ghana
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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).
- Call Number
- Sc E
- ISBN
- 9781789201017
- 1789201012
- LCCN
- 2018026906
- OCLC
- 1035460989
- Author
- Tengan, Alexis B. (Alexis Bekyane), author.
- Title
- Of life and health : the language of art and religion in an African medical system / Alexis Beykane Tengan.
- Publisher
- New York : Berghahn Books, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Note
- ANTHROPOLOGICAL STUDY OF HEALTH SYSTEM OF DAGARA PEOPLE.
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Tengan, Alexis B. (Alexis Bekyane). Of life and health. New York : Berghahn Books, 2018 9781789201024 (DLC) 2018029276
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-1241