2010
393 Seiten
5 Karten, 14 Farbfotos, 1 s/w-Foto, 3 Farbabbildungen, zahlreiche Tabellen und Übersichten
Textsprache(n): Englisch, Französisch
INHALT
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