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

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

Under these links you will find publications by the contributors:

Accompanying material:

• A Grammar of Kambaata (ISBN 978-3-89645-484-3)
• A Grammatical Description of Metta (Cameroon) in Relation to Focus Parametric Variation (ISBN 978-3-89645-544-4)
• A Pedagogic Grammar of Babanki (ISBN 978-3-89645-558-1)
• Afrikaner schreiben zurück (ISBN 978-3-89645-053-1)
• Akum, Ala’atening and Mankon: Dialects or Languages? (ISBN 978-3-89645-562-8)
• APAL Annual Publication in African Linguistics (ISBN 978-3-89645-503-1)
• Bankon (A40) (ISBN 978-3-89645-030-2)
• Das Hone und seine Stellung im Zentral-Jukunoid (ISBN 978-3-89645-107-1)
• Deictics, Copula, and Focus in the Ethiopian Convergence Area (ISBN 978-3-89645-293-1)
• Khoisan Languages and Linguistics – 4th Symposium 2011 (ISBN 978-3-89645-880-3)
• Lexique comparé des langues bantu du Kwilu (République démocratique du Congo) (ISBN 978-3-89645-564-2)
• Mechthildian Approaches to Afrikanistik – Advances in Language Based Research on Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-226-9)

Cross-reference:

• Advances in Minority Language Research in Nigeria vol. I (ISBN 978-3-89645-426-3)
• Cameroon Professional Women in Sciences (ISBN 978-3-89645-853-7)
• Copy Pronouns (ISBN 978-3-89645-424-9)
• Dialoge, Prosa und Liedtexte aus dem Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache (Audio-CD) (ISBN 978-3-89645-007-4)
• Die afrikanistische Feldforschung (ISBN 978-3-89645-016-6)
• Encoding Motion – Case Studies from Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-505-5)
• Fading Delimitations (ISBN 978-3-89645-904-6)
• Lehrbuch der Hausa-Sprache mit Audio-CD (ISBN 978-3-89645-008-1)
• Linguistic Salvage – Isubu and Wovea (Bantu A231) (ISBN 978-3-89645-770-7)
• Magic and Gender (ISBN 978-3-89645-108-8)
• Nilo-Saharan – Models and Descriptions (ISBN 978-3-89645-665-6)
• The Noun Morphology of Western Nilotic (ISBN 978-3-89645-139-2)

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