Of life and health : the language of art and religion in an African medical system /: the language of art and religion in an African medical system. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alexis Beykane Tengan.
• Authors: Tengan, Alexis B (Alexis Bekyane)
• Contents: Scientific language, knowledge frames and ways of reasoning -- Life animation and transmission: the language of the ancestors -- Life resources, sustenance, and growth: the language of the spirit and life force of nature (kantanme) -- Health delivery and healing processes: the white bagr healing cult and the food domain -- Health delivery and healing processes: the black bagr healing cult and the domain of the inedible and undomesticated -- Language and cultural ideation on healing: the healer and the healing cult (Tibr) -- The healer, the healing cult and the patient observed -- Conclusion. Nature and the cosmic life in elements: (animated beings, objects and things).
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages ), illustrations
• Subjects: 305.89635066; Dagaaba (African people) -- Social life and customs; Dagaaba (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies; Healing -- Ghana -- Religious aspects; Healing -- Burkina Faso -- Religious aspects; Ritual -- Ghana; Ritual -- Burkina Faso; Dagaaba (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies; Healing -- Religious aspects; Ritual; Burkina Faso; Ghana
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781789201024; 1789201020
• Related ISBNs: 9781789201017; 1789201012
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.