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050 00 $aPL8002$b.P47 2010
245 00 $aPerception of the invisible :$breligion, historical semantics and the role of perceptive verbs /$cedited by Anne Storch.
260 $aKöln :$bKöppe,$cc2010.
300 $a393 p. :$bill. (some col.) ;$c24 cm.
490 1 $aSprache und Geschichte in Afrika SUGIA,$x0170-5946 ;$vBd. 21 (Special v.)
500 $a"This volume has been compiled from papers and discussions contributed to the international conference "Perception of the invisible: religion, historical semantics and the role of perceptive verbs", which was held at the University of Cologne from November 14 to 17, 2007"--Pref.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aElectricity, spirit mediums and the media of spirits / Heike Behrend -- Perception of the living dead and the invisible hand in Teso-Turkana / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal -- Written pleas to the invisible world : texts as media between living and dead in Pharaonic Egypt / Sylvie Donnat -- Spiritual warfare in Igboland, southeast Nigeria / Johannes Harnischfeger -- Les plantes et l'invisible chez les Mbuun, Mpiin et Nsong (Bandundu, RD Congo) / Joseph Koni-Muluwa & Koen Bostoen -- Imagination and its readings in ancient Egypt / Anja Kootz -- Oracles, ancestor cults and letters to the dead : the involvement of the dead in the public and private family affairs in Pharaonic Egypt / Juan-Carlos Moreno García -- Taboos and quirks of human behaviour / Keith Allan -- Invisible bonds between Kordofan and Dongolawi Nubians according to Tagle oral traditions / Gumma Ibrahim & Marcus Jaeger -- Bogon akolesa. Taboos of the Chala. "Why we shouldn't do what we don't do" / Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer -- Percevoir le divin, selon le cycle des legends thébaines dans Ovide, Méthamorphoses III / Françoise Labrique -- Eyes on top? Culture and the weight of the senses / Walter E.A. van Beek -- The sensory world : ideophones in Africa and elsewhere / Roger M. Blench -- The "invisible" perception verbs comparison in Mankon and Meta? Succession-induction traditional rites / Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka -- Perception verbs and taste adjectives in Kambaata and beyond / Yvonne Treis -- Naming the invisible in Bantu languages of Cameroon: on the semantic coherence of nominal class systems / Gratien G. Atindogbé -- Water and inversion : African conceptualizations / Anne-Maria Fehn & Anne Storch.
546 $aFifteen contributions in English and two in French.
650 0 $aAfrican languages$vCongresses.
650 0 $aHistorical linguistics$xSocial aspects$zAfrica$vCongresses.
650 0 $aLanguage and culture$zAfrica$vCongresses.
650 0 $aAfrican languages$xVerb$vCongresses.
700 1 $aStorch, Anne.
830 0 $aSUGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika ;$vBd. 21.