Perception of the invisible
Subtitle: religion, historical semantics and the role of perceptive verbs
By: edited by Anne Storch
Series: Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika SUGIA -- Bd. 21 (Special v.); SUGIA, Sprache und Geschichte in Afrika -- Bd. 21.
Publisher: Köppe
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Köln
Language: eng
Number of pages: 393
ISBN-13: 9783896456038
Subjects: African languages; Historical linguistics; Verb; Congresses; Language and culture
Notes: "This volume has been compiled from papers and discussions contributed to the international conference "Perception of the invisible: religion, historical semantics and the role of perceptive verbs", which was held at the University of Cologne from November 14 to 17, 2007"--Pref.

Includes bibliographical references.

Fifteen contributions in English and two in French.
Table of contents: title: Electricity, spirit mediums and the media of spirits / Heike Behrend; title: Perception of the living dead and the invisible hand in Teso-Turkana / Gerrit J. Dimmendaal; title: Written pleas to the invisible world : texts as media between living and dead in Pharaonic Egypt / Sylvie Donnat; title: Spiritual warfare in Igboland, southeast Nigeria / Johannes Harnischfeger; title: Les plantes et l'invisible chez les Mbuun, Mpiin et Nsong (Bandundu, RD Congo) / Joseph Koni-Muluwa & Koen Bostoen; title: Imagination and its readings in ancient Egypt / Anja Kootz; title: Oracles, ancestor cults and letters to the dead : the involvement of the dead in the public and private family affairs in Pharaonic Egypt / Juan-Carlos Moreno García; title: Taboos and quirks of human behaviour / Keith Allan; title: Invisible bonds between Kordofan and Dongolawi Nubians according to Tagle oral traditions / Gumma Ibrahim & Marcus Jaeger; title: Bogon akolesa. Taboos of the Chala. "Why we shouldn't do what we don't do" / Ulrich Kleinewillinghöfer; title: Percevoir le divin, selon le cycle des legends thébaines dans Ovide, Méthamorphoses III / Françoise Labrique; title: Eyes on top? Culture and the weight of the senses / Walter E.A. van Beek; title: The sensory world : ideophones in Africa and elsewhere / Roger M. Blench; title: The "invisible" perception verbs comparison in Mankon and Meta? Succession-induction traditional rites / Evelyn Fogwe Chibaka; title: Perception verbs and taste adjectives in Kambaata and beyond / Yvonne Treis; title: Naming the invisible in Bantu languages of Cameroon: on the semantic coherence of nominal class systems / Gratien G. Atindogbé; title: Water and inversion : African conceptualizations / Anne-Maria Fehn & Anne Storch.