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  • Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe

    Health and Well-Being

    de Tabona Shoko ...
    Series series Vitality of Indigenous Religions
    Tabona Shoko contends that religion and healing are intricately intertwined in African religions. This book on the religion of the Karanga people of Zimbabwe sheds light on important methodological issues relevant to research in the study of African religions. Analysing the traditional Karanga views of the causes of illness and disease, mechanisms of diagnosis at their disposal and the methods ... Leer más

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  • Women and Religion in Zimbabwe

    Strides and Struggles

    The chapters in this volume foreground the ambivalent role of religion and culture when it comes to African women’s health and well-being. Reflecting on the three major religions in Africa, i.e. African Indigenous Religions, Christianity, and Islam, the authors illustrate how religious beliefs and practices can either enhance or hinder women’s holistic progress and development. With a specific ... Leer más

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    The Riddles of Culture

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    One of America's leading anthropolgists offers solutions to the perplexing question of why people behave the way they do.Why do Hindus worship cows? Why do Jews and Moslems refuse to eat pork? Why did so many people in post-medieval Europe believe in witches?Marvin Harris answers these and other perplexing questions about human behavior, showing that no matter how bizarre a people's behavior may ... Leer más

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  • Purity and Danger

    An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo

    Series series Routledge Classics
    In Purity and Danger Mary Douglas identifies the concern for purity as a key theme at the heart of every society. In lively and lucid prose she explains its relevance for every reader by revealing its wide-ranging impact on our attitudes to society, values, cosmology and knowledge. The book has been hugely influential in many areas of debate - from religion to social theory. But perhaps its most ... Leer más

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  • Male Daughters, Female Husbands

    Gender and Sex in an African Society

    de Ifi Amadiume ...
    Series series Essential Amadiume
    Winner of the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the YearIn 1987, more than a decade before the dawn of queer theory, Ifi Amadiume wrote Male Daughters, Female Husbands to critical acclaim. Here Amadiume boldly argues that the notion of gender, as constructed in Western feminist discourse, did not exist in Africa before the colonial imposition of a dichotomous understanding of sexual difference ... Leer más

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  • Towards a Mwaghavul History: an Exploration

    de Joseph Dahip ...
    The history of the Mwaghavul is a long one, documented in various forms, ranging from records of administration by the colonialist, to the documentation of archaeological discoveries by white explorers and administrators, documentation and analysis of languages, oral lore and culture by linguists and the latest series of narration and documentation of various aspects of the Mwaghavul people by ... Leer más

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  • Ritual and Belief

    Readings in the Anthropology of Religion

    Edición de David Hicks ...
    Ritual and Belief: Readings in the Anthropology of Religion is a collection of 41 readings in religion, magic, and witchcraft. The choice of readings is eclectic: no single anthropological approach or theoretical perspective dominates the text. Theoretical significance, scholarly eminence of the author, and inherent interest provide the principal criteria, and each reading complements its ... Leer más

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  • New Worlds, Year Four

    More Essays on the Art of Worldbuilding

    de Marie Brennan ...
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    Escape into another world . . .Bathing and banking, animals and adultery: human culture contains a truly daunting array of elements. The fourth volume of the NEW WORLDS series takes readers on a tour of all-new topics, delving into everything from childbirth to dream interpretation to the importance of generosity, as award-winning fantasy author and former anthropologist Marie Brennan continues ... Leer más

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  • A Philosophical Concept of Agwu in Igbo Land

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    This book is written to create awareness and see if adequate interpretation would be given to certain phenomena and calamities created by the vagaries of nature and induced by spirits, Agwu inclusive, and suggest how they can be resolved. To do this, Agwu has examined the concept in all its tendencies and ramifications.It tries to explain the relationship between Agwu and other creatures from the ... Leer más

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  • The Ritual Process

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    In The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure, Victor Turner examines rituals of the Ndembu in Zambia and develops his now-famous concept of "Communitas." He characterizes it as an absolute inter-human relation beyond any form of structure.The Ritual Process has acquired the status of a small classic since these lectures were first published in 1969. Turner demonstrates how the analysis of ... Leer más

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  • Encyclopedia of the Yoruba

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    "The encyclopedia gives a complex, yet detailed, presentation of the Yorùbá, a dominant ethnic group in West Africa . . . an invaluable resource." — Yoruba Studies ReviewThe Yoruba people today number more than thirty million strong, with significant numbers in the United States, Nigeria, Europe, and Brazil. This landmark reference work emphasizes Yoruba history, geography and demography, language ... Leer más

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  • AmaHlubi Culture and Customs (A Critiqué)

    What exactly is Culture? Not so many people understand the concept of culture. Most even mistake the elements of culture as the actual culture. This book will unveil succinctly the meaning of culture, identify its elements, aspects and institutions. It will provide few examples of cultural practices of amaHlubi nation and how they were influenced by other cultures, especially the English. ... Leer más

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