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Of life and health : the language of art and religion in an African medical system /

An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions. Consisting of ethnographic descriptions and...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tengan, Alexis B. (Alexis Bekyane) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2018.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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). 
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