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Sources et ressources : Panorama des cultures fondamentales de la République du Congo.
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ISBN: 9782930602004 Year: 2013 Publisher: Louvain-la-Neuve Centre international des langues et traditions d'Afrique

African voices, African lives
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ISBN: 0415137241 0415137233 9786610108299 0203437152 1280108290 9781134776054 9780203437155 9781134776016 9781134776061 9780415137232 9780415137249 1134776055 Year: 2003 Publisher: London New York Routledge

Spirit possession and personhood among the Kel Ewey Tuareg
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ISBN: 0521470072 052102577X 0511521146 Year: 1995 Volume: 94 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Among the Tuareg people in the Air Mountain region of Niger, women are sometimes possessed by spirits called 'the people of solitude'. The evening curing rituals of the possessed, featuring drumming and song, take place before an audience of young men and women, who joke and flirt as the ritual unfolds. In her analysis of this tolerated but unofficial cult, Susan Rasmussen analyses symbolism and aesthetic values, provides case studies of possessed women, and reviews what local people think about the meaning of possession.


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Alliances avec le Christ en Afrique : inculturation des rites religieux au Zaïre
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ISBN: 2865374742 9782865374748 Year: 1994 Publisher: Paris : Karthala,


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Becoming Rasta : Origins of Rastafari Identity in Jamaica
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ISBN: 9780814767474 9780814767467 0814767478 081476746X 0814768466 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York, NY : New York University Press,

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So much has been written about the Rastafari, yet we know so little about why and how people join the Rastafari movement. Although popular understandings evoke images of dreadlocks, reggae, and marijuana, Rastafarians were persecuted in their country, becoming a people seeking social justice. Yet new adherents continued to convert to Rastafari despite facing adverse reactions from their fellow citizens and from their British rulers.Charles Price draws on in-depth interviews to reveal the personal experiences of those who adopted the religion in the 1950s to 1970s, one generation past the movement's emergence . By talking with these Rastafari elders, he seeks to understand why and how Jamaicans became Rastafari in spite of rampant discrimination, and what sustains them in their faith and identity.Utilizing new conceptual frameworks, Price explores the identity development of Rastafari, demonstrating how shifts in the movement’s identity—from social pariah to exemplar of Blackness—have led some of the elder Rastafari to adopt, embrace, and internalize Rastafari and blackness as central to their concept of self.

Transforming female identities : women's organizational forms in West Africa.
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ISBN: 9171064036 Year: 1997 Volume: 31 Publisher: Uppsala Nordiska Afrikainstitutet

La cause des prophètes : politique et religion en Afrique contemporaine
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ISBN: 2020201607 9782020201605 Year: 1995 Publisher: Paris : Editions du Seuil,

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