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Bwiti : an ethnography of the religious imagination in Africa / James W. Fernandez ; drawings by Renate Lellep Fernandez.
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Fernandez, James W.
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English
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1982.
Description
xxiv, 731 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Fang (African people)
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Religion
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Summary note
Presents a the background of the religion, including European contacts, missionary efforts and effects, and the evolving nature of Fang cultural elements.
Notes
Includes index.
Bibliographic references
Bibliography: p. [661]-674.
Contents
PART 1: THE ROAD: 1. Narratives of Fang-European contacts, 1840-1910.
2. Composition of the past.
3. Extensions into social space and time.
4. Fang incorporated in built space.
5. Resource distribution and social reciprocities.
6. The relations between the sexes.
7. Authority and benevolence in the life cycle.
8. Coming into manhood.
9. The occult search for capacity.
PART 2: INTERPRETATIONS: 10. Ritual at work in two old Fang cults [initiation].
11. Reinterpretation of mission.
PART 3: A PLEASURE DOME: 12. Administered morality and moral movement to a fuller self.
13. The origin and re-creation of gods and men.
14. The dynamics of Bwiti in space and time.
15. The Bwiti chapel: architectonics.
16. The corporation of angels.
17. The path of birth and death: the benevolence in the liturgical cycle.
18. Equatorial excursions: the quest for revitalizing dreams and visions.
19, The world in Bwiti.
20. The pleasure dome emergent.
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ISBN
0691093903
9780691093901
0691101221 ((lim. print. ed.))
9780691101224 ((lim. print. ed.))
LCCN
81047125
OCLC
7554727
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