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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. 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 P

Author

Ivan Karp; Charles S Bird; Indiana University, Bloomington. African Studies Program

Publisher

Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press

Published

1987

Language

EN

ISBN

9780874745917