Of Life and Health: The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System by Tengan, Alexis Bekyane

Of Life and Health: The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781789201017)

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Of Life and Health: The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System by Tengan, Alexis Bekyane

Of Life and Health: The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System

$135.00
Of Life and Health: The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System by Tengan, Alexis Bekyane

Of Life and Health: The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System

$135.00
Format: Hardcover
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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.



Author: Alexis Bekyane Tengan
ISBN-10: 1789201012
ISBN-13: 9781789201017
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 12/17/2018
Pages: 252
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.70d
By Alexis Bekyane Tengan
By Alexis Bekyane Tengan
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Alexis Bekyane Tengan is an independent scholar in social and cultural anthropology resident in Belgium. He has taught for many years both in Belgium and in his native Ghana, and he now curates a private museum of sacred art and objects with studios in both countries. His publications include the Mythical Narratives in Ritual: Dagara Black Bagr (2006) and Art of Mythical Composition and Narration: Dagara White Bagr (2012).

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