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JACOBSON-WIDDING Anita (éditeur)

Body and Space. Symbolic Models of Unity and Division in African Cosmology and Experience

Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis - Uppsala - 1991
ISBN: 9789155427931
(Uppsal Studies in Cultural Anthropology - 16)
348 p., index - 24 x 16,5 cm

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Le troisième des quatre volumes répartis en thématiques des textes des contributions effectuées à l'occasion du Colloque tenu en Août 1987 sur le thème: African folk models and their applications.

Sommaire:
- Anita Jacobson-Widding / Subjective body, Objective Space - An Introduction, pp. 15-50.
Part I. The Divided World of Space
- Kaj Arhem / The Symbolic World of the Maasai Homestead, pp. 51-80,
- John W. Burton / Representations of the Feminine in Nilotic Cosmologies, pp. 81-98,
- Michel Izard / Space, Power and Human Destiny, pp. 99-108,
- Luc de Heusch / The King Comes from Elsewhere, pp. 109-118,
- Per Brandström / Left-Hand Father and Right-Hand Mother: Unity and Diversity in Sukuma-Nyamwezi Thought, pp. 119-142,
- Monica Udvardy / Gender, Power and the Fragmentation of fertility among the Giriama of Kenya, pp. 143-154,
- Robert A. Levine, Sarah E. Levine / House Design and the Self in African Culture, pp. 155-176.

Part II. The Unified World of the Body
- Anita Jacobson-Widding / The Encounter in the Water Mirror, pp. 177-216,
- Marie-Claude Dupré / Colours in Kidumu Masks of the Teke Tsaayi, pp. 217-236,
- Bjarke Paarup-Laursen / The Body as a Symbol. An Example from the Koma, pp. 237-248,
- Allan F. Roberts / Where the King is Coming From, pp. 249-270,
- Roy Willis / The Body as metaphor: Synthetic Observations on an African Artwork, pp. 271-282,
- René Devisch / Symbol and Symptom among the Yaka of Zaire, pp. 283-302,
- Igor Kopytoff / Medecines and the Sexual Transmission of Disease among the Suku of Zaire, pp. 303-314,
- James W. Fernandez / Embodiment and Disembodiment in Bwiti, pp. 315-334