Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Eco-Logical Healing Cult Among the YakaUniversity of Chicago Press, 1993 - 334 páginas For the Yaka of Southwestern Zaire, infertility is a tear in the fabric of life, and the Khita fertility ritual is a trusted way of reweaving the damaged strands. In Weaving the Threads of Life Rene Devisch offers an extended analysis of the Khita cult, which leads to an original account of the workings of ritual healing. Drawing on many years among urban and rural Yaka, Devisch analyzes their understanding of existence as a fabric of firmly but delicately interwoven threads of nature, body, and society. The fertility healing ritual calls forth forces, feelings, and meanings that allow women to rejoin themselves to the complex pattern of social and cosmic life. These elaborate rites—whether simulating mortal agony and rebirth, gestation and delivery, or flowering and decay; using music and dance, steambath or massage, dream messages or scarification—are not based on symbols of traditional beliefs. Rather, Devisch shows, the rites themselves generate forces and meaning, creating and shaping the cosmic, physical, and social world of their participants. In contrast to current theoretical methods such as postmodern or symbolical interpretation, Devisch's praxiological approach is unique in also using phenomenological insights into the intent and results of anthropological fieldwork. This innovative work will have ramifications beyond African studies, reaching into the anthropology of medicine and the body, comparative religious history, and women's studies. |
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... Forces 86 3 The Social Formation of Life Transmission 92 3.1 Life - bearing and Nurturing in the Homestead 93 3.2 Marriage as a Transfer " Along the Path to the Village " 101 3.3 The Reproductive Cell 106 3.4 The Two - forked Tree of ...
... Forces 86 3 The Social Formation of Life Transmission 92 3.1 Life - bearing and Nurturing in the Homestead 93 3.2 Marriage as a Transfer " Along the Path to the Village " 101 3.3 The Reproductive Cell 106 3.4 The Two - forked Tree of ...
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... Forces 196 7 The Khita Fertility Cult : Reorigination of the Fabric of Body , Kin , and Life - world 213 7.1 The Third Stage : Seclusion in the Uterus of the World 214 7.2 The Fourth Stage : Emancipating Forest Forces into Social ...
... Forces 196 7 The Khita Fertility Cult : Reorigination of the Fabric of Body , Kin , and Life - world 213 7.1 The Third Stage : Seclusion in the Uterus of the World 214 7.2 The Fourth Stage : Emancipating Forest Forces into Social ...
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... force , and into a multilayered interweave of forces and issues . Healing cults - there are some twenty of them - reshape and revivify the social and cultural order by tapping a source beyond the coercive order of tradition . The latter ...
... force , and into a multilayered interweave of forces and issues . Healing cults - there are some twenty of them - reshape and revivify the social and cultural order by tapping a source beyond the coercive order of tradition . The latter ...
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... forces in the daily encounter and the life - world , offering ever new and renewed virtualities of meaning and empow- ering . Symbolic ( re ) production and the concomitant recycling of forces consti- tute the crux of senior men's ...
... forces in the daily encounter and the life - world , offering ever new and renewed virtualities of meaning and empow- ering . Symbolic ( re ) production and the concomitant recycling of forces consti- tute the crux of senior men's ...
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... forces : I have therefore coined it semantic - praxiological . My internal approach and emphasis on metaphoric , hence metamorphic production is meant to render the healer's and patient's genuine presence at , and presencing of , the ...
... forces : I have therefore coined it semantic - praxiological . My internal approach and emphasis on metaphoric , hence metamorphic production is meant to render the healer's and patient's genuine presence at , and presencing of , the ...
Índice
Field and Method | 11 |
12 Field work | 20 |
13 Bantu Cults of Affliction | 23 |
14 Healers in the Town | 25 |
A Critique | 33 |
A SemanticPraxilogical Approach | 37 |
The Cosmology of Gender Arrangements and Life Transmission | 53 |
21 Horizontal and Vertical Space | 54 |
52 Divinatory Etiology and the Work of Cults | 169 |
53 Etiology as an Indication of Therapy | 173 |
The Khita Fertility Cult Reversing the Evil | 179 |
61 Khita and Similar Cults | 180 |
Reversing the Persecution into Uterine Bonds of Life Transmission | 183 |
The Decay and Cooking of Generative Forces | 196 |
The Khita Fertility Cult Reorigination of the Fabric of Body Kin and Lifeworld | 213 |
Seclusion in the Uterus of the World | 214 |
22 Cosmological Portrayal of Gender | 60 |
23 Animals and Plants | 74 |
24 Capturing and Cooking Untamed Forces | 86 |
The Social Formation of Life Transmission | 92 |
31 Lifebearing and Nurturing in the Homestead | 93 |
32 Marriage as a Transfer Along the Path to the Village | 101 |
33 The Reproductive Cell | 106 |
34 The Twoforked Tree of Agnatic Descent and Uterine Filiation | 115 |
35 Hunting versus Sorcery and the Fabric of Kin | 122 |
Body Group and Lifeworld Between Maze and Weave | 132 |
41 Physical and Sensory Modes of Contact | 134 |
42 The Relational Body | 139 |
43 The Body and Its Afflictions | 146 |
44 Cults of Affliction and Communal Sodalities | 147 |
Impediments to Life Transmission | 161 |
51 Masculinist Views on Human Agencies in Infertility | 164 |
Emancipating Forest Forces into Social Fecundity | 224 |
73 Relapse of Illness | 244 |
A Look at Victor Turner | 245 |
The Body as the Weaving Loom of Healing and Life | 255 |
81 The Role of Music and Dance in Healing | 259 |
82 The Source of Healing | 264 |
83 Paradox Transgression and Homeopathic Healing | 267 |
84 A Ternary Logic of Mediation and Effusion in Selfhealing | 276 |
Epilogue | 282 |
A Case of Infertility | 285 |
Herbarium | 293 |
Notes | 299 |
References | 315 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
affliction agnatic agnatic descent ancestral animal avuncular blood bodily body bridewealth chant circumcision clairvoyance cola nut commensality conjugal home connotes context cosmological curse dance death descent Devisch diurnal divinatory divinatory oracle diviner drama elders ensorcellment etiology evil evokes fertility forces forest fula gender healer healing cults homestead hunt hunter husband illness individual khita cult khita initiate khoofi Kinshasa Kwaango life-bearing life-world lineage Luunda male Mangaya marriage matrilineal matrimonial Mbela Khuumba meaning metaphor metonyms misfortune Moombo mother n-noongu Ndembu ngoongu night offer oracle palm tree palm wine parasol tree patient patriarch plants raffia palm realm relations rhythm rite ritual ritual house role savanna seclusion house sexual share signifies social sorcerer space symbolic ternary logic therapeutic therapist therapy tion traditional trance transformative transmission Turner village virile vital flow Waana weave weaving-hook wife woman women Yaka Yaka culture
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