Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Eco-Logical Healing Cult among the Yaka - Tapa blanda

Devisch, Rene

 
9780226143620: Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Eco-Logical Healing Cult among the Yaka
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ISBN 10: 0226143627 ISBN 13: 9780226143620
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1993

Sinopsis

For the Yaka of Southwestem Zaire, infertility is a tear in the fabric of life, and the Khita fertility ritual is a trusted way of re-weaving the damaged strands. In "Weaving the Threads of Life", Rene Devisch offers an extended analysis of the Khita cult, which leads to an original account of the workings of ritual healing. Devisch analyzes the Yaka's understanding of existence as a fabric of firmly but delicately interwoven threads of nature, body and society. The fertility healing ritual calls forth forces, feelings and meanings that allow women to rejoin themselves to the complex pattern of social and cosmic life. These elaborate rites are not based on symbols or traditional beliefs; rather, Devisch shows, they themselves generate forces and meaning, creating and shaping the cosmic, physical, and social worlds of their participants. Devisch's praxiological approach is unique in using phenomenological insights into the intent and results of anthropological fieldwork.

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For the Yaka of Southwestem Zaire, infertility is a tear in the fabric of life, and the Khita fertility ritual is a trusted way of re-weaving the damaged strands. In "Weaving the Threads of Life", Rene Devisch offers an extended analysis of the Khita cult, which leads to an original account of the workings of ritual healing. Devisch analyzes the Yaka's understanding of existence as a fabric of firmly but delicately interwoven threads of nature, body and society. The fertility healing ritual calls forth forces, feelings and meanings that allow women to rejoin themselves to the complex pattern of social and cosmic life. These elaborate rites are not based on symbols or traditional beliefs; rather, Devisch shows, they themselves generate forces and meaning, creating and shaping the cosmic, physical, and social worlds of their participants. Devisch's praxiological approach is unique in using phenomenological insights into the intent and results of anthropological fieldwork.

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Editorial
University of Chicago Press
Año de publicación
1993
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0226143627
ISBN 13 
9780226143620
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
344
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9780226143613: Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Eco-Logical Healing Cult among the Yaka (Emersion: Emergent Village resources for communities of faith)

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ISBN 10:  0226143619 ISBN 13:  9780226143613
Editorial: University of Chicago Press, 1993
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