Of Life and Health : : The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System /

Of Life and Health : : The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System / / Alexis Bekyane Tengan.

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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Tengan, Alexis Bekyane,
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t List of Figures --   |t List of Tables --   |t Introduction. About Life and Health --   |t Chapter 1. Scientific Language, Knowledge Frameworks and Ways of Reasoning --   |t Chapter 2. Life Animation and Transmission: The Language of the Ancestors --   |t Chapter 3. Life Resources, Sustenance and Growth: The Language of the Spirit and Life-Force of Nature (Kɔntɔnmɛ) --   |t Chapter 4. Health Delivery and Healing Processes: The White Bagr Healing Cult and the Food Domain --   |t Chapter 5. Health Delivery and Healing Processes: The Black Bagr Healing Cult and the Domain of Healing Toxins, the Inedible and Undomesticated --   |t Chapter 6. Language and the Cultural Ideation of Healing: The Healer and the Healing Cult (Tibr) --   |t Chapter 7. The Healer, the Healing Cult and the Patient Observed --   |t Conclusion. Nature and the Cosmic Life in Elements --   |t Appendix --   |t References --   |t Index 
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