ISBN:
9781789201024
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (252 p.)
DDC:
305.89635066
Keywords:
Dagaaba (African people) / Rites and ceremonies
;
Dagaaba (African people) / Social life and customs
;
Healing / Religious aspects / Burkina Faso
;
Healing / Religious aspects / Ghana
;
Healing / Burkina Faso / Religious aspects
;
Healing / Ghana / Religious aspects
;
Ritual / Burkina Faso
;
Ritual / Ghana
;
Ritual / Burkina Faso
;
Ritual / Ghana
;
Brauch
;
Dagari
;
Gesundheit
;
Religion
;
Volk
;
Volksmedizin
;
Stamm / Ethnologie
;
Sitte
;
Einflussgröße
;
Traditionale Kultur
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
Abstract:
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
DOI:
10.1515/9781789201024
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789201024?locatt=mode:legacy
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789201024
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
http://sozialundkulturanthropologie.proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/fid/berghahn-e-books/fid.berghahnbooksonline.com/title/TenganOf