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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Introduction. About Life and Health
- Chapter 1. Scientific Language, Knowledge Frameworks and Ways of Reasoning
- Chapter 2. Life Animation and Transmission: The Language of the Ancestors
- Chapter 3. Life Resources, Sustenance and Growth: The Language of the Spirit and Life-Force of Nature (Kɔntɔnmɛ)
- Chapter 4. Health Delivery and Healing Processes: The White Bagr Healing Cult and the Food Domain
- Chapter 5. Health Delivery and Healing Processes: The Black Bagr Healing Cult and the Domain of Healing Toxins, the Inedible and Undomesticated
- Chapter 6. Language and the Cultural Ideation of Healing: The Healer and the Healing Cult (Tibr)
- Chapter 7. The Healer, the Healing Cult and the Patient Observed
- Conclusion. Nature and the Cosmic Life in Elements
- Appendix
- References
- Index