Description |
vi, 337 pages ; 24 cm. |
Series |
African systems of thought
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African systems of thought.
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Note |
Papers given at a seminar organized for the African Studies Program at Indiana University in 1977. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index. |
Contents |
sect. 1. Modes of thought: Mande hero / Charles S. Bird and Martha B. Kendall -- Heat, physiology, and cosmogony: Rites de passage among the Thonga / Luc de Heusch -- Edification by puzzlement / James Fernandez -- Story of Kintu: myth, death, and ontology in Buganda / Benjamin Ray -- sect. 2. Images of social experience: Beer drinking and social experience in an African society: an essay in formal sociology / Ivan Karp -- A reconsideration of divine kingship / James H. Vaughan -- Women and men in two East African societies / T.O. Beidelman -- Taxonomy versus dynamics revisited: the interpretation of misfortune in a polyethnic community / W. Arens -- sect. 3. Cultural dynamics: Revitalization and the genesis of cults in pragmatic religion: the Kita rite of passage among the Suku / Igor Kopytoff -- Normal and revolutionary divination: a Kuhnian approach to African traditional thought / Dan F. Bauer and John Hinnant -- Social change and the history of misfortune among the Bashu of Eastern Zaïre / Randall M. Packard -- Village and the cattle camp: aspects of Atuot religion / John W. Burton -- sect. 4. Comparisons: African religions: types and generalizations / Wyatt MacGaffey. |
Subject |
Ethnophilosophy -- Africa.
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Ethnophilosophy. |
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Africa. |
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Cognition and culture -- Africa.
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Cognition and culture. |
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Africa -- Religion.
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Religion. |
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Ethnophilosophie -- Afrique. |
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Cognition et culture -- Afrique. |
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Afrique -- Religion. |
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Afrikaanse filosofie. |
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Cultuur. |
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Godsdienst. |
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Religions africaines. |
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Cognition et culture -- Afrique. |
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Ethnophilosophie -- Afrique. |
Added Author |
Karp, Ivan.
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Bird, Charles S. (Charles Stephen), 1935-
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Indiana University, Bloomington. African Studies Program.
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ISBN |
0253195233 |
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9780253195234 |
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