ISBN10: 0874745918, ISBN13: 9780874745917, [publisher: Washington, D.C. / London: Smithsonian Institution Press. 01.07.1987.] Softcover XVI, 337 Seiten / p. Aus der Arbeitsbibliothek von Hans-Joachim Koloss, Kurator der Afrika-Abteilung des Museums für Völkerkunde Berlin. / From the working library of Hans-Joachim Koloss, curator of the African department of the Berlin Ethnography Museum. - vereinzelte Bleistift-Anstreichungen, Cover leicht bestoßen und betrieben, minimaler Einriss, Buchrücken lichtbedingt farbverändert, ansonsten tadelloser Zustand / scattered pencil annotations, cover lightly bumped and rubbed, minimal tear, spine light-toned, otherwise perfect condition - Anthropologists and Africanists will welcome the paperback edition of this important collection with a new preface. The thirteen original essays use fresh theoretical perspectives to relate various belief systems to the indigenous social contexts in which concrete human experience is ordered and classified. The examples studied are pan-African and range from riddles through myths about the origin of death to beer-drinking rituals. -- The first section of the book explores different notions of being and personhood in African systems of thought; the second section explores how collective representations ( images and symbols ) organize and express people’s experience of self, society, and nature; and the third section focuses on the dynamism of traditional systems in adapting to change. The ...
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