An edition of Perception of the invisible (2010)

Perception of the invisible

religion, historical semantics and the role of perceptive verbs

Perception of the invisible
Anne Storch, Anne Storch
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Perception of the invisible

religion, historical semantics and the role of perceptive verbs

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Table of Contents

Electricity, 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.

Edition Notes

"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.

Includes bibliographical references.

Fifteen contributions in English and two in French.

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Köln
Series
Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika SUGIA -- Bd. 21 (Special v.), SUGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika -- Bd. 21.

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PL8002 .P47 2010

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393 p. :
Number of pages
393

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OL25120705M
ISBN 10
3896456032
ISBN 13
9783896456038
LCCN
2010498074
OCLC/WorldCat
655257566

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