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Bwiti: an ethnography of the religious imagination in Africa

James W. Fernandez c1982 © Princeton University Press
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  • 9780691196282 (ebook)
  • 9780691093901 (hardcover)
  • 9780691101224 (paper)
Subject
  • African
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Figures (page xiii)
  • List of Photographs (page xv)
  • Preface and Acknowledgments (page xix)
  • Linguistic Note (page xxii)
  • Entering into an Equatorial Microcosm (page 3)
  • PART I The Road
    • 1. Narratives of Fang-European Contacts, 1840-1910 (page 27)
    • 2. Compositions of the Past (page 49)
    • 3. Extensions into Social Space and Time (page 74)
    • 4. Fang Incorporated in Built Space (page 99)
    • 5. Resource Distribution and Social Reciprocities (page 126)
    • 6. The Relations between the Sexes (page 150)
    • 7. Authority and Benevolence in the Life Cycle (page 170)
    • 8. Coming into Manhood (page 187)
    • 9. The Occult Search for Capacity (page 215)
  • PART II Interpretations
    • 10. Ritual at Work in Two Old Fang Cults (page 243)
    • 11. Reinterpretations of Mission (page 271)
  • PART III A Pleasure Dome
    • 12. Administered Morality and Moral Movement to a Fuller Self (page 291)
    • 13. The Origin and Re-creation of Gods and Men (page 312)
    • 14. The Dynamics of Bwiti in Space and Time (page 345)
    • 15. The Bwiti Chapel: Architectonics (page 371)
    • 16. The Corporation of Angels (page 413)
    • 17. The Path of Birth and Death: The Benevolence in the Liturgical Cycle (page 436)
    • 18. Equatorial Excursions: The Quest for Revitalizing Dreams and Visions (page 470)
    • 19. The World in Bwiti (page 494)
    • 20. The Pleasure Dome Emergent (page 532)
  • Afterword: The Suggestion of Coherence, The Impression of Momentum (page 565)
  • Appendix I. Glossary of Key Terms (page 574)
  • Appendix II. Sermon Texts (page 588)
  • Appendix III. The MBiri Curing Societies (page 595)
  • Notes (page 601)
  • Bibliography (page 661)
  • Index (page 675)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
MAN 18.4 (Dec. 1983): 795-796 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2801917
NUM 32.1 (Jul. 1985): 115-117 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3269967
AE 10.4 (Nov. 1983): 791-792 http://www.jstor.org/stable/644064
JIH 14.4 (Spring 1984): 902-904 http://www.jstor.org/stable/203506
AFA 17.2 (Feb. 1984): 86-88, 92 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3336241
AAF 86.342 (Jan. 1987): 121-122 http://www.jstor.org/stable/722876
JAFH 25.2 (1984): 228-230 http://www.jstor.org/stable/181396
AFRI 56.3 (1986): 352-356 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1160689
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