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Author Bellman, Beryl, 1941-

Title Village of curers and assassins : on the production of Fala Kpelle cosmological categories / by Beryl Larry Bellman
Published The Hague : Mouton, 1975

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Description 1 online resource (196 pages)
Series Approaches to semiotics ; 39
Approaches to semiotics ; 39.
Contents Frontmatter -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. SUBJECTIVE MEANING OF FALA KPELLE COSMOLOGICAL CATEGORIES: THE FORMAL PROPERTIES OF FALA KPELLE CONSOCIATE INTERACTIONS -- INTRODUCTION TO PART ONE -- 1. THE REFLEXIVITY OF IFA MO TO THE HISTORICITY OF INTERACTIONS BETWEEN MEMBERS -- 2. TO KNOW ONESELF -- 3. KNOWING ONESELF AND THE PRACTICE OF IFA MO -- 4. THE ASSESSMENT OF KNOWLEDGE -- PART TWO. OBJECTIVE MEANINGS OF KPELLE COSMOLOGICAL CATEGORIES -- INTRODUCTION TO PART TWO -- 5. THE MEANING OF SALE OR MEDICINES -- 6. THE OBJECTIVE MEANING OF THE KPELLE SPIRIT WORLD -- 7. THE SOCIAL STRUCTURE OF THE DREAM AND WAKING WORLDS -- APPENDIX 1. THE SUCROMU TOWN PALAVER -- APPENDIX 2. FALA KPELLE KINSHIP CATEGORIES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-192) and index
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Subject Kpelle (African people) -- Social life and customs
Kpelle (African people) -- Religion
Folk classification -- Liberia
Folk classification.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Folk classification
Kpelle (African people) -- Religion
Kpelle (African people) -- Social life and customs
Kpelle.
Kosmologie.
Liberia
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ISBN 9783110874631
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