Braided worlds
By: Alma Gottlieb and Philip Graham
Contributors: Graham, Philip, 1951-
Publisher: London : The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780226305271; 9780226305288; 9780226304724
Subjects: Social life and customs; Ethnology; Religion; Beng (African people); Fieldwork; Beng Philosophy
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: A Beng path to birth (September 1986-May 1987); title: Alma: of blessings and bad faith; title: Philip: the scrabble champion; title: Alma: two homes and a hospital; title: Censored words (March 1990); title: Philip: la crise; title: Alma: can you teach anthropology to a toddler?; title: Philip: our own house of Mbari; title: Back in the village (May-June 1993); title: Alma: the house of Africa; title: Philip: raising the stakes; title: Alma: old agendas, new agendas; title: Philip: the adventures of Tintin; title: Alma: the spirit of grandfather Denju; title: Philip: one screen door; title: Casting spells (June-July 1993); title: Alma: another story to confess; title: Philip: anything but invisible; title: Alma: too expensive to die; title: Philip: the waiting fax; title: Things of the heart (July-August 1993); title: Alma: mad to be modern; title: Philip: my father's African afterlife; title: Alma: the first twelve months of life; title: Philip: welcoming ghosts; title: Alma: Amenan's lament; title: Philip: "Denju, denju"; title: Alma: mystical musical chairs; title: Philip: gifting party; title: Alma: tying up loose ends; title: Philip: shooting fish; title: A different fieldwork site (January 1994); title: Alma: converging paths; title: Philip: "ka-na poblé"; title: Epilogue: Côte d'Ivoire and the Beng in crisis; title: A brief note about the Beng.