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Bellman, Beryl L.

Village of Curers and Assassins : On the Production of Fala Kpelle Cosmological Categories / Beryl L. Bellman. - Reprint 2012 - 1 online resource (196 p.) - Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , 39 0066-5576 ; .

i-iv -- 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

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Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9789027930422 9783110874631

Standard No.: 10.1515/9783110874631 doi

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Folk classification--Liberia.
Kpelle (African people)--Religion.
Kpelle (African people)--Social life and customs.
Kpelle.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.

LC Class. No.: DT630.5.K63 / B44

Dewey Class. No.: 305.896/662