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African Indigenous Religions and Disease Causation : From Spiritual Beings to Living Humans.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2005Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (248 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789047407690
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: African Indigenous Religions and Disease CausationDDC classification:
  • 299.6/11661
LOC classification:
  • BL2462.5 -- .W37 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE ETHNOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND -- CHAPTER TWO HEAVENLY BEINGS AMONG THE SAN -- CHAPTER THREE GOD IN MAASAI THOUGHT -- CHAPTER FOUR SUKUMA SPIRITS OF ANCESTORS -- CHAPTER FIVE KONGO SPIRITS OR NKISI -- CHAPTER SIX YORUBA DIVINITIES -- CHAPTER SEVEN LIVING HUMANS AMONG THE SAN AND MAASAI -- CHAPTER EIGHT WITCHERY AMONG THE SUKUMA, KONGO AND YORUBA -- CHAPTER NINE FACTORS OF CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- APPENDIX NOTES ON NATURAL CAUSATION OF DISEASE -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
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Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER ONE ETHNOGRAPHIC BACKGROUND -- CHAPTER TWO HEAVENLY BEINGS AMONG THE SAN -- CHAPTER THREE GOD IN MAASAI THOUGHT -- CHAPTER FOUR SUKUMA SPIRITS OF ANCESTORS -- CHAPTER FIVE KONGO SPIRITS OR NKISI -- CHAPTER SIX YORUBA DIVINITIES -- CHAPTER SEVEN LIVING HUMANS AMONG THE SAN AND MAASAI -- CHAPTER EIGHT WITCHERY AMONG THE SUKUMA, KONGO AND YORUBA -- CHAPTER NINE FACTORS OF CONTINUITY AND CHANGE -- APPENDIX NOTES ON NATURAL CAUSATION OF DISEASE -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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