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Author Symposium on African Folk Models and Their Application (1987 : Uppsala University)

Title Personhood and agency : the experience of self and other in African cultures : papers presented at a Symposium on African Folk Models and Their Application, held at Uppsala University, August 23-30, 1987 / edited by Michael Jackson and Ivan Karp
Published Uppsala : [Uppsala University] ; Washington : distributed by Smithsonian Institution Press (U.S.A. and Canada), 1990

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 W'PONDS  155.8 Sym/Paa 1987  AVAILABLE
Description 192 pages ; 25 cm
Series Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis.. Uppsala studies in cultural anthropology ; 14
Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. Uppsala studies in cultural anthropology ; 14
Contents The shadow as an expression of individuality in Congolese conceptions of personhood / Anita Jacobson-Widding -- The man who could turn into an elephant : shape-shifting among the Kuranko of Sierra Leone / Michael Jackson -- Power and capacity in Iteso rituals of possession / Ivan Karp -- The widow's dream : sex and death in western Kenya / Susan Reynolds Whyte -- The human body as a vehicle for emotions among the Yaka of Zaire / Rene Devisch -- On cultural bias and the cosmos : home universes in Southern Africa / Richard P. Werbner -- Initiation : a folk model among the Lobi / Jan Ovesen -- The formation of personality in Fulani ethno-psychology / Paul Riesman
Analysis Ethnopsychology Africa Congresses
Folk models Africa Congresses
Self-perception Africa Congresses
Bibliography Includes bibliographies
Subject Ethnopsychology -- Africa -- Congresses.
Folk models -- Africa -- Congresses.
Self-perception -- Africa -- Congresses.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Jackson, Michael, 1940-
Karp, Ivan.
LC no. 90063866
ISBN 915542600X