Weaving the threads of life
Subtitle: the Khita gyn-eco-logical healing cult among the Yaka
By: René Devisch.
Contributors: Devisch, Renaat, 1944-
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 334
Subjects: Yaka (African people) -- Medicine.; Yaka (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies.; Cults -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa.; Traditional medicine -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa.; Infertility, Female -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Kinshasa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-323) and index.
Based on the author's Se recréer femme. Chapters 2-3 and 1-7 have been expanded, and chapters l, 4, and 8, the prologue, and epilogue are completely new.