Along an African Border : : Angolan Refugees and Their Divination Baskets / / Sónia Silva, Sonia Silva.
The divination baskets of south Central Africa are woven for a specific purpose. The baskets, known as lipele, contain sixty or so small articles, from seeds, claws, and minuscule horns to wooden carvings. Each article has its own name and symbolic meaning, and collectively they are known as jipelo....
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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011] ©2011 |
Year of Publication: | 2011 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Contemporary Ethnography
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (188 p.) :; 37 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Birth
- 2. Initiation
- 3. Adulthood
- Conclusion. A Way of Living
- Notes
- Glossary
- Works Cited
- Index
- Acknowledgments