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  • Ownership and Nurture
    The first book to address the classic anthropological theme of property through the ethnography of Amazonia, Ownership and Nurture sets new and challenging terms for anthropological debates about the region and about property in general. Property and ownership have special significance and carry specific meanings in Amazonia, which has been portrayed as the antithesis of West...
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    187,77 €

  • Polygamy in Northern Malawi. A Christian Reassessment
    Moses Mlenga
    The early missionaries brought Christianity from the monogamous West to the polygamous societies of Africa. Were the missionaries right in demanding that converts dismiss all but one wife? Was this the demand of the Christian faith or of Western civilization? And were the converts right to dismiss their wives though they had married them according to the laws of the land? And w...
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    51,00 €

  • An African Tree of Life
    Thomas G. Christensen / Thomas GChristensen
    An African Tree of Life demonstrates how mission involves not only a ''bringing-to'' a people, but a ''discovering-of'' those deep symbols in human culture and God’s creation that, in the light of the gospel, draw humanity to Christ. This book, in a scholarly yet intriguing way, explores the stories and rituals of the Gbaya people of the Cameroon and the Central African Republi...
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    24,48 €

  • BORN INTO IDOLATRY BONDAGE
    CYRIL K. NWOZOR Ph.D.
    Have you ever wondered why there is no progress, no peace and no joy in your life and maybe in your family? Why wherever the soles of your feet touch, you possessed curses instead of blessings; and why is it that anything you touched brought a curse instead of blessings? Think about it. BORN INTO IDOLATRY BONDAGE is one of the major destroyers of the foundation of the lives of...
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    13,96 €

  • Beyond Tradition, Beyond Invention
    Afro-Cuban religiosity is likely to bring to mind beliefs and practices with a visibly ’African’ flavour - music, dance, spirit possession, sacrifices and ritual language that have undergone a transformation, on Cuban soil, under a strong Spanish and Catholic influence. Much anthropological work has analysed Afro-Cuban religion’s ’syncretic’ character in the light of these Euro...
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    120,42 €

  • Demystifying Hmong Shamanism
    Linda A Gerdner
    Demystifying Hmong Shamanism is the first book to provide a comprehensive discussion of shamanism as practiced and experienced by Hmong Americans. A broad range of case examples are discussed that not only represent the initiation and maintenance of the shaman's practice, but also a variety of ceremonies performed to promote spiritual health and well-being across the life span....
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    25,41 €

  • Slavery, Memory and Religion in Southeastern Ghana, c. 1850-Present
    Meera Venkatachalam
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    130,22 €

  • African Indigenous Religious Traditions in Local and Global Contexts
    This volume honours one of the great scholars of our era, Professor Jacob Olupona. Although he has conducted significant portions of his career outside of Nigeria, he has not separated himself from his colleagues or from interests in religions in Nigeria and elsewhere in Africa. His publications and presentations offer the international scholarly community important critical in...
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    67,63 €

  • The Voodoo Encyclopedia
    Jeffrey Anderson
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    159,64 €

  • Neighbors, Strangers, Witches, and Culture-Heroes
    Susan Rasmussen
    This book examines alleged 'superhuman' powers predominantly associated with smith/artisans in five African societies. It discusses their ritual and social roles, mythico-histories, symbols surrounding their art, and changing relationships between these specialists and their patrons. Needed but also feared, these smith/artisans work in traditionally hereditary occupations and i...
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    64,39 €

  • Healing in the Homeland
    Armand / Margaret Mitchell Armand
    Margaret Mitchell Armand presents a cutting edge interdisciplinary terrain inside an indigenous exploration of her homeland. Her contribution to the historiography of Haïtian Vodou demonstrates the struggle for its recognition in Haïti’s post-independence phase as well as its continued misunderstanding. Through a methodological, original study of the colonial culture of slavery...
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    62,52 €

  • African Traditional Religion in the Modern World, 2d ed.
    Douglas E Thomas
    African traditional religion encompasses a variety of non-dogmatic, spiritual practices followed by millions around the world. Some scholars argue it is related to the Nubian religion of Egypt's Dynastic Period. In an expanded second edition, this book examines the nature of African traditional religion and describes common attributes of various cultural belief systems, wit...
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    39,04 €

  • The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
    Emile Durkheim / Joseph Ward Swain
    The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life is the classic and unabridged work on the sociology of religion by one of the founders of the modern science of sociology-now presented in a library-quality hardcover edition. [Look for the modern edition published by Quid Pro with a red cover; it avoids the proofreading and formatting errors of many 'new edition.'] Émile Durkheim exam...
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    39,80 €

  • Now That We Have Met
    William MacCrea
    In the early 19th century, the highlands of Scotland experienced 'The Clearances': the uprooting of families and communities. The majority of those dispossessed folk crossed the sea to North America, while others went on to Australia, New Zealand and even Chile.Some of the exiles carried with them a spiritual sense called the 'Old Way' - a wildly beautiful form of early Christi...
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    22,44 €

  • Anetso, the Cherokee Ball Game
    Michael J. Zogry / Michael JZogry
    Anetso, a centuries-old Cherokee ball game still played today, is a vigorous, sometimes violent activity that rewards speed, strength, and agility. At the same time, it is the focus of several linked ritual activities. Is it a sport? Is it a religious ritual? Could it possibly be both? Why has it lasted so long, surviving through centuries of upheaval and change?Based on his wo...
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    50,90 €

  • Animismus
    Lothar Käser
    Animismus ist, sehr vereinfacht gesagt, eine Form von Religion. Vieles deutet darauf hin, dass Animismus schon vor vielen tausend Jahren, am Beginn der Altsteinzeit, die Basis des religiösen Verhaltens der damals lebenden Menschen bildete. In der Gegenwart finden wir animistische Formen von Religion immer noch weit verbreitet in den vorwiegend von mündlicher Tradition bestimmte...
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    35,56 €

  • Carnival of the Spirit
    Luisah Teish
    Carnival of the Spirit is a vibrant synergy of African Spirituality, folktales, and kitchen-table wisdom in an exuberant tribute to world holidays and nature's four seasons. Luisah Teish serves up stories of her own family's traditions along with festivals from all over the world-from the Lily Festival in Japan to the Yam Festival in West Africa, from intimate family ga...
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    26,23 €

  • Roots of Haiti’s Vodou-Christian Faith
    R. Murray Thomas / RMurray Thomas
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    82,27 €

  • Pigs and Persons in the Philippines
    Jon Henrik Ziegler Remme
    The Ifugao of Northern Luzon, the Philippines, are famous for their extensive system of irrigated rice terraces, and previous anthropological accounts of the Ifugao have stressed their immense importance for social life. This book attempts to 'go against the grain' and approach Ifugao society through an often overlooked element, namely their pigs. By a detailed ethnographic des...
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    132,16 €

  • Animism
    Lothar Käser
    In very simple terms animism could be described as a form of religion. There is much to indicate that many thousands of years ago, at the beginning of the Palaeolithic period, animism already constituted the basis of the religious behaviour of people living at that time. Today animistic forms of religion are still widely prevalent in all parts of the world among preliterate soc...
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    35,73 €

  • The Concept of Man in Non-Western Cultures
    Robert Badenberg
    Handbook to Lothar Käser's Textbook 'Animism - A Cognitive Approach'. If we want to understand the animistic cognitive system we must focus particularly on its concept of man. Access to it can only be achieved by proceeding systematically. A basic prerequisite for this is a knowledge of the language spoken by the people whose culture is shaped by such an animistic system of t...
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    16,42 €

  • Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman
    Jeanne Christensen
    Rastafari Reasoning and the RastaWoman: Gender Constructions in the Shaping of Rastafari Livity examines the complex ways that gender and race shaped a liberation movement propelled by the Caribbean evolution of an African spiritual ethos. Jeanne Christensen proposes that Rastafari represents the most recent reworking of this spiritual ethos, referred to as African religiosity....
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    148,65 €

  • Animism in Rainforest and Tundra
    Amazonia and Siberia, classic regions of shamanism, have long challenged ’western’ understandings of man’s place in the world. By exploring the social relations between humans and non-human entities credited with human-like personhood (not only animals and plants, but also ’things’ such as artifacts, trade items, or mineral resources) from a comparative perspective, this volume...
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    44,66 €

  • The Architects of Existence
    Teresa N. Washington / Teresa NWashington
    With her first book, Our Mothers, Our Powers, Our Texts: Manifestations Aje in Africana Literature, Teresa N. Washington reveals the Pan-African power and profundity of Aje and its myriad sister systems in Pan-African literature and culture. In The Architects of Existence: Aje in Yoruba Cosmology, Ontology, and Orature, Washington undertakes an in-depth exploration of Aje's...
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    107,36 €

  • The Formation of Candomblé
    Luis Nicolau Parés
    Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas. Originally publishe...
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    60,37 €

  • Charming Beauties and Frightful Beasts
    The study of non-human animals as other-than-human persons (including animal-spirits and divine animals) has marked a significant shift in the ethics and politics of the academic study of religion. Charming Animals and Frightful Beasts investigates how South Asian religions, with their sacred narratives, ritual and non-ritual practices and performances, bear witness to the acti...
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    37,79 €

  • Charming Beauties and Frightful Beasts
    Ferrari
    The study of non-human animals as other-than-human persons (including animal-spirits and divine animals) has marked a significant shift in the ethics and politics of the academic study of religion. Charming Animals and Frightful Beasts investigates how South Asian religions, with their sacred narratives, ritual and non-ritual practices and performances, bear witness to the acti...
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    127,96 €

  • Neighbors, Strangers, Witches, and Culture-Heroes
    Susan Rasmussen
    This book examines alleged 'superhuman' powers predominantly associated with smith/artisans in five African societies. It discusses their ritual and social roles, mythico-histories, symbols surrounding their art, and changing relationships between these specialists and their patrons. Needed but also feared, these smith/artisans work in traditionally hereditary occupations and i...
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    99,02 €

  • A Philosophical Concept of Agwu in Igbo Land
    Agwu Christopher Agwu
    This book is written to create awareness and see if adequate interpretation would be given to certain phenomena and calamities created by the vagaries of nature and induced by spirits, Agwu inclusive, and suggest how they can be resolved. To do this, Agwu has examined the concept in all its tendencies and ramifications. It tries to explain the relationship between Agwu and othe...
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    12,73 €

  • Healing in the Homeland
    Margaret Mitchell Armand
    Margaret Mitchell Armand presents a cutting edge interdisciplinary terrain inside an indigenous exploration of her homeland. Her contribution to the historiography of Haïtian Vodou demonstrates the struggle for its recognition in Haïti’s post-independence phase as well as its continued misunderstanding. Through a methodological, original study of the colonial culture of slavery...
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    116,53 €


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