Of Life and Health : The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System - Alexis Bekyane Tengan Genre:West Africa scholarly and immensely readable portrait

scholarly and immensely readable portrait

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It gives you a deep sense of the morality

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Adam and Eve and the eternal fall of mankind

Of Life and Health : The Language of Art and Religion in an African Medical System - Alexis Bekyane Tengan Genre:West Africa scholarly and immensely readable portraitAn 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