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The politics of divination : a processual view of reactions to illness and deviance among the Sisala of northern Ghana

Title
The politics of divination : a processual view of reactions to illness and deviance among the Sisala of northern Ghana / Eugene L. Mendonsa.
Author
Mendonsa, Eugene L.
Publication
Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1982.

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Description
xii, 270 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
Subject
  • Sisala (African people) > Social life and customs
  • Sisala (African people) > Medicine
  • Divination > Ghana > Case studies
  • Social ecology
  • Superstition
  • Medicine, African Traditional
  • Social Environment
  • Superstitions
  • human ecology
  • Superstition
  • Social ecology
  • Divination
  • Medizin
  • Orakel
  • Sisala
  • Sozialordnung
  • Waarzeggerij
  • Sjamanisme
  • Volksgeneeskunde
  • Sisal (volk)
  • Divination > Ghana
  • Deviant behavior
  • Ghana
  • Sisala
Genre/Form
  • Case Reports
  • Case studies
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 245-254.
ISBN
  • 0520045947
  • 9780520045941
LCCN
81016400
OCLC
  • ocm07837161
  • 7837161
  • SCSB-87286
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library