
Perception of the Invisible
Religion, Historical Semantics and the Role of Perceptive Verbs
Edited by: Anne Storch. With contributions by: Keith Allan, Gratien G. Atindogbé, Heike Behrend, Roger M. Blench, Koen Bostoen, Gerrit J. Dimmendaal, Sylvie Donnat, Anne-Maria Fehn, Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka, Gumma Ibrahim Gulfan, Johannes Harnischfeger †, Marcus Jaeger, Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer, Joseph Koni Muluwa, Anja Kootz, Françoise Labrique, Juan-Carlos Moreno García, Anne Storch, Yvonne Treis, Walter E.A. van Beek.
Series: SUGIA Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika, Volume 21
2010393 pp.
5 maps, 14 colour photos, 1 b/w photo, 3 colour figures, 10 b/w figures, numerous tables and charts
Text language(s): English, French
Format: 170 x 240 mm
830 g
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CONTENTS
I. Representations of Invisible/Unseen Objects
Heike Behrend:
Electricity, Spirit Mediums and the Media of Spirits
Gerrit J. Dimmendaal:
Perception of the Living Dead and the Invisible Hand in Teso-Turkana
Sylvie Donnat:
Written Pleas to the Invisible World – Texts as Media between Living and Dead in Pharaonic Egypt
Johannes Harnischfeger:
Spiritual Warfare in Igboland, Southeast Nigeria
Joseph Koni Muluwa / Koen Bostoen:
Les plantes et l’invisible chez les Mbuun, Mpiin et Nsong (Bandundu, RD Congo)
Anja Kootz:
Imagination and its Readings in Ancient Egypt
Juan-Carlos Moreno García:
Oracles, Ancestor Cults and Letters to the Dead – The Involvement of the Dead in the Public and Private Family Affairs in Pharaonic Egypt
II. Social Organization and History
Keith Allan:
Taboos and Quirks of Human Behaviour
Gumma Ibrahim / Marcus Jaeger:
Invisible Bonds between Kordofan and Dongolawi Nubians According to Tagle Oral Traditions
Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer:
Bogon akolesa – Taboos of the Chala. “Why we shouldn’t do what we don’t do”
Françoise Labrique:
Percevoir le divin, selon le cycle des legends thébaines dans Ovide, Méthamorphoses III
III. Perceptive Preferences and the Categorization Patterns
Walter E.A. van Beek:
Eyes on Top? Culture and the Weight of the Senses
Roger M. Blench:
The Sensory World – Ideophones in Africa and Elsewhere
Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka:
The ‘Invisible’ Perception Verbs Comparison – In Mankon and Meta Succession-Induction Traditional Rites
Yvonne Treis:
Perception Verbs and Taste Adjectives in Kambaata and Beyond
IV. Language and Discourse
Gratien G. Atindogbé:
Naming the invisible in Bantu Languages of Cameroon – On the Semantic Coherence of Nominal Class Systems
Anne-Maria Fehn / Anne Storch:
Water and Inversion – African Conceptualization
Reviews
The volume testifies to the success of the Cologne International Conference in fulfilling its aims.
Stanislaw Pilaszewicz in Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures, 44/2010, 122-126
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