Ritual: Power, Healing and Community - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Malidoma Patrice SomeSeries:CompassAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1997-12-01Pages:128
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140195583ISBN-10:140195580UPC:9780140195583Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Customs & TraditionsSize:8.47 x 5.50 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.2403Product ID:SCPYR2J94T
Ritual: Power, Healing and Community
The stories within these books have the poignancy of new discoveries as well as the unworn imagination of the ancestors. The commentary has the sharp edge of modern thought and the intricacy which results from the intellect being woven through the ritual complexities of tribal life. The purpose of constructing thresholds that bring this world together is to find the powers that can heal the rends...
Series: Compass
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780140195583ISBN-10:140195580UPC:9780140195583Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Customs & TraditionsSize:8.47 x 5.50 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.2403Product ID:SCPYR2J94T
Malidoma Patrice Somé, born in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) West Africa, is initiated in the ancestral traditions of his tribe, and is a medicine man and diviner in the Dagra culture. He holds three master's degrees and two doctorates from Sorbonne and Brandeis University, and has taught at the University of Michigan. He currently devotes himself to speaking and, with his wife, Sobonfu,...
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
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