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Author : Gurli Hansson
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Total Pages : 378 pages
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Download or read book Mwana Ndi Mai written by Gurli Hansson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tabona Shoko
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317109635
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Karanga Indigenous Religion in Zimbabwe written by Tabona Shoko and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 they use to restore health, Shoko discusses the views of a specific African Independent Church of the Apostolic tradition. The conclusion Shoko reaches about the central religious concerns of the Karanga people is derived from detailed field research consisting of interviews and participant observation. This book testifies that the centrality of health and well-being is not only confined to traditional religion but reflects its adaptive potential in new religious systems manifest in the phenomenon of Independent Churches. Rather than succumbing to the folly of static generalizations, Tabona Shoko offers important insights into a particular society upon which theories can be reassessed, adding new dimensions to modern features of the religious scene in Africa.
Author : Robert Sutherland Rattray
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Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Some Folk-lore Stories and Songs in Chinyanja written by Robert Sutherland Rattray and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amelie Berger
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171064158
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Twice Humanity written by Amelie Berger and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1998 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David Sheppard's particular blend of interests single him out as unique among Anglican bishops. An outstanding sportsman as well as a dedicated cleric, many will remember him first and foremost as an English cricket captain. Others will recall his ecumenical strengths and his partnership with the Roman Catholic Archbishop, Derek Warlock, when they were both incumbents in Liverpool.
Author : Richard Werbner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520949463
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)
Download or read book Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy written by Richard Werbner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-04-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the charismatic Christian reformation presently underway in Botswana’s time of AIDS and the moral crisis that divides the church between the elders and the young, apostolic faith healers. Richard Werbner focuses on Eloyi, an Apostolic faith-healing church in Botswana’s capital. Werbner shows how charismatic "prophets"—holy hustlers—diagnose, hustle, and shock patients during violent and destructive exorcisms. He also shows how these healers enter into prayer and meditation and take on their patients’ pain and how their ecstatic devotions create an aesthetic in which beauty beckons God. Werbner challenges theoretical assumptions about mimesis and empathy, the power of the word, and personhood. With its accompanying DVD, Holy Hustlers, Schism, and Prophecy integrates textual and filmed ethnography and provides a fresh perspective on ritual performance and the cinematic.
Author : J. M. Schoffeleers
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299133245
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (332 download)
Download or read book River of Blood written by J. M. Schoffeleers and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of years of fieldwork in southern Malawi, River of Blood reconstructs the beginnings of the Mbona martyr cult, follows its history to the present day, and reveals the fascinating intersections of an indigenous belief system with European Christianity. In the cult of Mbona, the central African mythology of the snake that is beheaded to make the rains come has been combined with a more spiritual interpretation: the snake has been transformed into a human martyr and redeemer. According to the cult, the rainmaker Mbona was tracked down by his enemies; they cut off his head, and his blood formed the River of Blood. Mbona returned as a storm wind and asked that a shrine be dedicated in his name. J. Matthew Schoffeleers recounts how the Portuguese presence in Zambezia in the period 1590-1622 led to more than three decades of internecine warfare and caused the people of southern Malawi tremendous suffering. In response to this political oppression and social upheaval, Schoffeleers shows, the people looked to Mbona, their "black Jesus," for redemption. Beyond reconstructing the cult's genesis, Schoffeleers traces its recent history, particularly in political context. He provides texts of seven cult myths from different historical periods in both Chimang'anja and English. His analysis presents the Mbona myth as a continuous social construction and deconstruction. Emphasizing the impact of political and spiritual oppression on the cult, he distinguishes between the differing versions of the myth preserved by the aristocracy and by the commonalty and demonstrates how these disparate views unite to preserve historical information. In so doing, he shows that cults serve as valuable repositories for historical information.
Author : Gerhard Kubik
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226456943
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Theory of African Music, Volume II written by Gerhard Kubik and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 1 previously published in 1994 by F. Noetzel.
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Download or read book The African Listener written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malawi Congress Party. Convention
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Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book Malaŵi Congress Party Annual Convention written by Malawi Congress Party. Convention and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alma Gottlieb
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022633063X
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (263 download)
Download or read book The Afterlife Is Where We Come From written by Alma Gottlieb and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-10-31 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infant is thought to begin its life filled with spiritual knowledge. How do these beliefs affect the way the Beng rear their children? In this unique and engaging ethnography of babies, Alma Gottlieb explores how religious ideology affects every aspect of Beng childrearing practices—from bathing infants to protecting them from disease to teaching them how to crawl and walk—and how widespread poverty limits these practices. A mother of two, Gottlieb includes moving discussions of how her experiences among the Beng changed the way she saw her own parenting. Throughout the book she also draws telling comparisons between Beng and Euro-American parenting, bringing home just how deeply culture matters to the way we all rear our children. All parents and anyone interested in the place of culture in the lives of infants, and vice versa, will enjoy The Afterlife Is Where We Come From. "This wonderfully reflective text should provide the impetus for formulating research possibilities about infancy and toddlerhood for this century." — Caren J. Frost, Medical Anthropology Quarterly “Alma Gottlieb’s careful and thought-provoking account of infancy sheds spectacular light upon a much neglected topic. . . . [It] makes a strong case for the central place of babies in anthropological accounts of religion. Gottlieb’s remarkably rich account, delivered after a long and reflective period of gestation, deserves a wide audience across a range of disciplines.”—Anthony Simpson, Critique of Anthropology
Author : Harri Englund
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781842772836
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (728 download)
Download or read book Rights and the Politics of Recognition in Africa written by Harri Englund and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2004-09-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description
Author : Helaine Selin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9048125995
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (481 download)
Download or read book Childbirth Across Cultures written by Helaine Selin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will explore the childbirth process through globally diverse perspectives in order to offer a broader context with which to think about birth. We will address multiple rituals and management models surrounding the labor and birth process from communities across the globe. Labor and birth are biocultural events that are managed in countless ways. We are particularly interested in the notion of power. Who controls the pregnancy and the birth? Is it the hospital, the doctor, or the in-laws, and in which cultures does the mother have the control? These decisions, regarding place of birth, position, who receives the baby and even how the mother may or may not behave during the actual delivery, are all part of the different ways that birth is conducted. One chapter of the book will be devoted to midwives and other birth attendants. There will also be chapters on the Evolution of Birth, on Women’s Birth Narratives, and on Child Spacing and Breastfeeding. This book will bring together global research conducted by professional anthropologists, midwives and doctors who work closely with the individuals from the cultures they are writing about, offering a unique perspective direct from the cultural group.
Author : Richard Werbner
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526138026
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Anthropology after Gluckman written by Richard Werbner and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-25 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing the Manchester School at the vanguard of modern social anthropology, this book reveals the cosmopolitan distinctiveness of the intimate circle around Max Gluckman. Such distinctiveness, Richard Werbner argues, was driven by creative difference, travelling theories and innovative, interdisciplinary approaches. The expansion of social anthropology as a dynamic, open discipline became the hallmark of the Manchester School. The remarkable careers and legacies of the Manchester School anthropologists are shown for the first time through inter-linked social biography and intellectual history, to reach broadly across politics, law, ritual, development studies, comparative urbanism, social network analysis and mathematical sociology. Werbner reveals that members of the circle engaged in deep dialogue, enduring friendships, and creative collaboration. The re-discovery of the complexity of their engagement and their lasting impact illuminates the exploration of the frontiers between ethnography, the sociology of knowledge, and the anthropology of colonial to postcolonial change.
Author : Ulrich Berner
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447050029
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)
Download or read book European Traditions in the Study of Religion in Africa written by Ulrich Berner and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises case studies of five centuries of European encounters with and imaginations of Africa encompassing her triple religious heritage: African Traditional Religions, Christianity and Islam. The introductory chapters outline the challenges and present overviews; some of them also analyze the early accounts of European travelers and missionaries. The following contributions examine the lasting legacy of the European Enlightenment in employing an ambivalent language of human equality and universalism, while in actual fact consigning Africa to an inferior position. It has been difficult for western scholars to divorce themselves wholly from the perceptions thus established. However, there have been quite different approaches. This is indicated in the papers discussing the role and impact of influential European academics (scholars of religion, theologians, historians and social scientists) during the colonial and postcolonial period. Other contributions examine specific institutional centers of African religious studies in Europe. The concluding chapters critically assess European approaches and their use for the study of religion in Africa from an African perspective.
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Total Pages : 172 pages
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Author : Marja-Liisa Swantz
Publisher : Gracewing Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780852445600
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Beyond the Forestline written by Marja-Liisa Swantz and published by Gracewing Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 120 pages
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Download or read book Selections from the Scriptures, in the Isubu tongue. [Translated by Joseph Merrick.] written by and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
