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Of Life and Health

The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System

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Of Life and Health

The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System

By: Alexis Bekyane Tengan

An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions. Consisting of ethnographic descriptions and analyses of six Dagara cultic institutions, each of which deals with different aspects of sustaining and transmitting life, the volume gives a holistic account of the Dagara knowledge system.

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1789201012

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Of Life and Health

The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System

By: Alexis Bekyane Tengan

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The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System

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Berghahn Books

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1789201020

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9781789201024

Hoe-farming and Social Relations Among the Dagara of Northwestern Ghana and Southwestern Burkina Faso

By: Alexis Bekyane Tengan

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Hoe-farming and Social Relations Among the Dagara of Northwestern Ghana and Southwestern Burkina Faso

By: Alexis Bekyane Tengan

This anthropological study of hoe-farming in West Africa outlines the cultural meanings involved in working the land and rearing/raising society. Unlike other studies which usually focus on the kin-group as the basic social unit, this piece of work considers the house society or community as the most appropriate focus by which the Dagara people themselves tend to structure their society and to work out their social relationship including cultural practices of different kinds. With many ethnographic details, the study shows how much the house figure functions as a physical and social institution in Dagara mode of thinking and also in the imagination including the intellectual sphere as an important concept. Therefore, the author sees hoe-farming and the figure of the house as linked themes which have to be jointly studied. Considered as such, the study uses them to outline Dagara mode of thinking about themselves and what they do in terms of social relations.

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322

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Alexis Tengan

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3631347979

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9783631347973

Dagara Black Bagr English & Dagaare

By: Alexis B. Tengan

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Dagara Black Bagr English & Dagaare

By: Alexis B. Tengan

In this volume, the author presents a version of Africa's longest oral recitation of myth of origination, the black bagr myth found among the Dagara of Northern Ghana and Southern Burkina Faso, and discusses in detail its historical and literary significance for the society. Hence, the author first outlines the historical conditions possibly responsible for the coming into existence of both the mythical narratives and the rites of initiation that accompany the narration; and then presents the literary frame and structure in which the black bagr narrative is composed. The rest of the book is a unique bilingual (Dagara and English) presentation of the black bagr narration recorded and viewed live from within a secret rite of initiation. The narration itself, similar to all black bagr ritual narrative sessions, lasted up to three hours and was performed without interruption by one speaker. The narrative content shows to what extent the rites achieve the double purpose of teaching the initiates culture knowledge and giving them new individual identities that will equip them for different social positions in life.

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Peter Lang

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9052012873

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9789052012872

Hoe-farming and Social Relations Among the Dagara of Northwestern Ghana and Southwestern Burkina Faso

By: Alexis Bekyane Tengan

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Alexis Tengan

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The Art of Mythical Composition and Narration

Dagara White Bagr

By: Alexis Bekyane Tengan

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The Art of Mythical Composition and Narration

Dagara White Bagr

By: Alexis Bekyane Tengan

Throughout history, oral cultures lacking the medium of writing have relied on secret cults and societies to keep the authoritative versions of their sacred compositions, originally passed on to them as myths of divine origins, alive and remembered. In this book, the author, after many years spent observing secret rites, presents different versions of the White Bagr mythical narrative, following the ritual calendar. These rites, which are found among the Dagara/Lobi societies in West Africa, form a crucial part of the year-long rites of initiation of selected neophytes into bagr society. In addition to giving a detailed ethnographic description of this society, its initiation rites and a bilingual version of their mythical narrations, the author seeks to explain how memory is constructed, retained and transmitted in orature, and what it takes to give a proper oration, without errors, slips of the tongue and deviation, as well as examining how the performance is critically received by bagr society and the Dagara people.

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P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales

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9052018669

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9789052018669

About Sacred and Religious Art in Africa: An Ethnographic Study on a Private Collection

By: Alexis B. Tengan

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About Sacred and Religious Art in Africa: An Ethnographic Study on a Private Collection

By: Alexis B. Tengan

Of what significance are sacred art objects in Africa? In this book, the author launches an investigation into the grammar of sacred and religious art objects and presents them as encoded language of shrines and cults; thus providing insights into the notion of the divine as it appears in all African systems of thought. The book is unique for presenting a perspective that African cultic institutions should be seen as the syntax of some special and exclusive language for appreciating African art objects. Anthropologists, research professionals, academia, students, and the curious reader interested in African art and religion, would find this book refreshingly useful.

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Woeli Publishing Services

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9988920229

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Book's by Alexis Bekyane Tengan

Of Life and Health

Of Life and Health

Of Life and Health

Of Life and Health

Hoe-farming and Social Relations Among the Dagara of Northwestern Ghana and Southwestern Burkina Faso

Hoe-farming and Social Relations Among the Dagara of Northwestern Ghana and Southwestern Burkina Faso

Dagara Black Bagr English & Dagaare

Dagara Black Bagr English & Dagaare

Hoe-farming and Social Relations Among the Dagara of Northwestern Ghana and Southwestern Burkina Faso

Hoe-farming and Social Relations Among the Dagara of Northwestern Ghana and Southwestern Burkina Faso

The Art of Mythical Composition and Narration

The Art of Mythical Composition and Narration

About Sacred and Religious Art in Africa: An Ethnographic Study on a Private Collection

About Sacred and Religious Art in Africa: An Ethnographic Study on a Private Collection

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