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- catalog abstract "The first section of the book explores different notions of being and personhood in African systems of thought; the second section explores how collective representations organize and express people's experience of self, society, and nature; and the third section focuses on the dynamism of traditional systems in adapting to change. The concluding essay provides an original approach to comparing the relations between cosmology and social roles.".
- catalog contributor b6327634.
- catalog contributor b6327635.
- catalog contributor b6327636.
- catalog contributor b6327637.
- catalog coverage "Africa Religion.".
- catalog created "1987.".
- catalog date "1987".
- catalog date "1987.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1987.".
- catalog description "(cont.) Normal and revolutionary divination : a Kuhnian approach to African traditional thought / Dan F. Bauer and John Hinnant -- Social change and the history of misfortune among the Bashu of eastern Zaire / Randall M. Packard -- THe village and the cattle camp : aspects of atuot religion / John W. Burton -- 4. Comparisons. African religions : types and generalizations / Wyatt MacGaffey.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographies and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction / Ivan Karp -- 1. Modes of thought. The mande hero / Charles S. Bird and Martha B. Kendall -- Heat, physiology, and cosmogony : rites de passage among the Thoga / Luc de Heusch -- Edification by puzzlement / James Fernandez -- The story of Kintu : myth, death, and ontology in Buganda / Benjamin Ray -- 2. Images of social experience. Beer drinking and social experience in an African society : an essay in formal sociology / Ivan Karp -- A reconsideration of divine kingship / James H. Vaughan -- Women and men in two East African societies / T. O. Beidelman -- Taxonomy versus dynamics revisited : the interpretation of misfortune in a polyethnic community / W. Arens -- 3. Cultural dynamics. Revitalization and the genesis of cults in pragmatic religion : the Kita rite of passage among the Suku / Igor Kopytoff --".
- catalog description "The first section of the book explores different notions of being and personhood in African systems of thought; the second section explores how collective representations organize and express people's experience of self, society, and nature; and the third section focuses on the dynamism of traditional systems in adapting to change. The concluding essay provides an original approach to comparing the relations between cosmology and social roles.".
- catalog extent "xvi, 337 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Explorations in African systems of thought.".
- catalog identifier "0874745918 (pbk.)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Explorations in African systems of thought.".
- catalog isPartOf "African systems of thought.".
- catalog issued "1987".
- catalog issued "1987.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Washington, D.C. : Smithsonian Institution Press,".
- catalog relation "Explorations in African systems of thought.".
- catalog spatial "Africa Religion.".
- catalog spatial "Africa.".
- catalog subject "Cognition and culture Africa.".
- catalog subject "Ethnophilosophy Africa.".
- catalog subject "GN645 .E92 1987".
- catalog tableOfContents "(cont.) Normal and revolutionary divination : a Kuhnian approach to African traditional thought / Dan F. Bauer and John Hinnant -- Social change and the history of misfortune among the Bashu of eastern Zaire / Randall M. Packard -- THe village and the cattle camp : aspects of atuot religion / John W. Burton -- 4. Comparisons. African religions : types and generalizations / Wyatt MacGaffey.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction / Ivan Karp -- 1. Modes of thought. The mande hero / Charles S. Bird and Martha B. Kendall -- Heat, physiology, and cosmogony : rites de passage among the Thoga / Luc de Heusch -- Edification by puzzlement / James Fernandez -- The story of Kintu : myth, death, and ontology in Buganda / Benjamin Ray -- 2. Images of social experience. Beer drinking and social experience in an African society : an essay in formal sociology / Ivan Karp -- A reconsideration of divine kingship / James H. Vaughan -- Women and men in two East African societies / T. O. Beidelman -- Taxonomy versus dynamics revisited : the interpretation of misfortune in a polyethnic community / W. Arens -- 3. Cultural dynamics. Revitalization and the genesis of cults in pragmatic religion : the Kita rite of passage among the Suku / Igor Kopytoff --".
- catalog title "Explorations in African systems of thought / edited by Ivan Karp & Charles S. Bird.".
- catalog type "text".