The forest of symbols: aspects of Ndembu ritual
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The forest of symbols: aspects of Ndembu ritual
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Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments -- Introduction. God-Bodies, Talk-Makers: Deity Embodiments in Nahua Religions -- Chapter 1. Meeting the Gods -- Chapter 2. Ethnolinguistic Encounters: Teotl and Teixiptla in Nahuatl Scholarship -- Chapter 3. Divining the Meaning …
"Following their first contact in 1519, accounts of Aztecs identifying Spaniards as gods proliferated. But what exactly did the Aztecs mean by a "god" (teotl), and how could human beings become gods or take on godlike properties? This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analy…
Even in the twenty-first century some two-thirds of the world's peoples - the world's social majority - quietly live in non-modern, non-cosmopolitan places. In such places the multitudinous voices of the spirits, deities, and other denizens of the other-than-human world continue…
"Women run screaming from their village at night, leaving all their clothes behind - possessed by spirits of the wilderness, they climb up a barana' tree. It is but one of the fascinating rituals of the Toraja people described in this study." "The Toraja people live in the mount…
