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Tricksters and trancers : bushman religion and society / Mathias Guenther.

By: Guenther, Mathias Georg
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: ix, 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0253213444 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0253336406 (cloth : alk. paper)Other title: Tricksters & trancers [Cover title]Subject(s): San (African people) -- Africa, Southern -- Religion | Africa, Southern -- ReligionDDC classification: 299/.681 LOC classification: BL2480.S24 | G84 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-279) and index.
Contents:
Bushman society -- Values and individuals -- Bushman religious belief and cosmology -- The Bushman trickster -- Stories, story telling, and story gathering: the case of the moon and the hare -- Myth and gender -- Initiation rites -- The trance curing dance -- Missionaries and Bushmen -- Conclusion: Bushman religion and the tolerance for ambiguity.
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Book Book John Bulow Campbell Library Midrange BL2480.S24 G84 1999 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0182902133566

Bushman society -- Values and individuals -- Bushman religious belief and cosmology -- The Bushman trickster -- Stories, story telling, and story gathering: the case of the moon and the hare -- Myth and gender -- Initiation rites -- The trance curing dance -- Missionaries and Bushmen -- Conclusion: Bushman religion and the tolerance for ambiguity.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [261]-279) and index.

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