Title: Personhood and agency :
Authors: Jackson, Michael,; Karp, Ivan.
Date: 1990
Publisher: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis ;
Physical description: 192 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: G
Contents: The shadow as an expression of individuality in Congolese conceptions of personhood / Anita Jacobson-Widding -- The man who could turn into an elephant : shape-shifting among the Kuranko of Sierra Leone / Michael Jackson -- Power and capacity in Iteso rituals of possession / Ivan Karp -- The widow's dream : sex and death in western Kenya / Susan Reynolds Whyte -- The human body as a vehicle for emotions among the Yaka of Zaire / Rene Devisch -- On cultural bias and the cosmos : home universes in Southern Africa / Richard P. Werbner -- Initiation : a folk model among the Lobi / Jan Ovesen -- The formation of personality in Fulani ethno-psychology / Paul Riesman.
Notes: "Papers presented at a symposium on African Folk Models and Their Application, held at Uppsala University, August 23-30, 1987."
Subject headings (LCSH): Africa--Social life and customs--Congresses.; Ethnopsychology--Africa--Congresses.; Folk models--Africa--Congresses.; Self (Philosophy)--Congresses.; Self-perception--Africa--Congresses.; Self-presentation--Africa--Congresses.