TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tengan,Alexis Bekyane
TI  - Of Life and Health: The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System 
SN  - 9781789201017
AV  - GN655.G45 T46 2019
U1  - 305.89635066 23
PY  - 2018///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Dagaaba (African people)
KW  - Rites and ceremonies
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Healing
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Burkina Faso
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Ritual
KW  - Brauch
KW  - gnd
KW  - Dagari
KW  - Gesundheit
KW  - Religion
KW  - Volk
KW  - Volksmedizin
KW  - Stamm
KW  - Ethnologie
KW  - Sitte
KW  - Einflussgröße
KW  - Traditionale Kultur
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Dagara, Health System, Medical System, Healing Systems, Ghana, Burkina Faso, African Anthropology
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures --; List of Tables --; Introduction. About Life and Health --; Chapter 1. Scientific Language, Knowledge Frameworks and Ways of Reasoning --; Chapter 2. Life Animation and Transmission: The Language of the Ancestors --; Chapter 3. Life Resources, Sustenance and Growth: The Language of the Spirit and Life-Force of Nature (Kɔntɔnmɛ) --; Chapter 4. Health Delivery and Healing Processes: The White Bagr Healing Cult and the Food Domain --; Chapter 5. Health Delivery and Healing Processes: The Black Bagr Healing Cult and the Domain of Healing Toxins, the Inedible and Undomesticated --; Chapter 6. Language and the Cultural Ideation of Healing: The Healer and the Healing Cult (Tibr) --; Chapter 7. The Healer, the Healing Cult and the Patient Observed --; Conclusion. Nature and the Cosmic Life in Elements --; Appendix --; References --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789201024?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789201024
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789201024/original
ER  -