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Weaving the threads of life : the Khita gyn-eco-logical healing cult among the Yaka

責任表示 René Devisch
データ種別 図書
出版情報 Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 1993
本文言語 英語
大きさ x, 334 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm
概要 For the Yaka of Southwestern Zaire, infertility is a tear in the fabric of life, and the Khita fertility ritual is a trusted way of reweaving the damaged strands. In Weaving the Threads of Life Rene D...visch offers an extended analysis of the Khita cult, which leads to an original account of the workings of ritual healing. Drawing on many years among urban and rural Yaka, Devisch analyzes their 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--whether simulating mortal agony and rebirth, gestation and delivery, or flowering and decay; using music and dance, steambath or massage, dream messages or scarification--are not based on symbols of traditional beliefs. Rather, Devisch shows, the rites themselves generate forces and meaning, creating and shaping the cosmic, physical, and social world of their participants. In contrast to current theoretical methods such as postmodern or symbolical interpretation, Devisch's praxiological approach is unique in also using phenomenological insights into the intent and results of anthropological fieldwork. This innovative work will have ramifications beyond African studies, reaching into the anthropology of medicine and the body, comparative religious history, and women's studies.
For the Yaka of Southwestern Zaire, infertility is a tear in the fabric of life, and the Khita fertility ritual is a trusted way of reweaving 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. Drawing on many years among urban and rural Yaka, Devisch analyzes their 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--whether simulating mortal agony and rebirth, gestation and delivery, or flowering and decay; using music and dance, steambath or massage, dream messages or scarification--are not based on symbols of traditional beliefs. Rather, Devisch shows, the rites themselves generate forces and meaning, creating and shaping the cosmic, physical, and social world of their participants. In contrast to current theoretical methods such as postmodern or symbolical interpretation, Devisch's praxiological approach is unique in also using phenomenological insights into the intent and results of anthropological fieldwork. This innovative work will have ramifications beyond African studies, reaching into the anthropology of medicine and the body, comparative religious history, and women's studies. 続きを見る

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pbk. 中央図 自動書庫 389.448/D 66 1993
110012020513317

書誌詳細

一般注記 Based on the author's Se recréer femme. Chapters 2-3 and 1-7 have been expanded, and chapters l, 4, and 8, the prologue, and epilogue are completely new
Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-323) and index
著者標目 *Devisch, Renaat, 1944-
件　名 LCSH:Yaka (African people) -- Medicine  全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Yaka (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies  全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Cults -- Zaire -- Kinshasa  全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Traditional medicine -- Zaire -- Kinshasa  全ての件名で検索
LCSH:Infertility, Female -- Zaire -- Kinshasa  全ての件名で検索
分　類 LCC:DT650.B38
DC20:306.4/61
書誌ID 1001695699
ISBN 0226143619
NCID BA21847727
巻冊次 ISBN:0226143619
pbk. ; ISBN:0226143627
登録日 2020.06.19
更新日 2020.06.19

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