Grafting Old Rootstock: Studies in Culture and Religion of the Chamba, Duru, Fula, and Gbaya of Cameroun
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Noss, Philip A., editor
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1982
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International Museum of Cultures
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International Museum of Cultures Publication 14
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Table of Contents:
Preface
Philip Noss
Acknowledgments
Map
Introduction
Wendell Frerichs
Culture and Society
Poem: The Stranger
Philip Noss
Introduction
- The Stranger among the Chamba
Bouba Bernard - Gbaya Proverbs and Hospitality
Dala Marcel - The Danger of Courtesy
Philip Noss - Reflections on the Life of the European
Bouba Bernard - Gbaya Marriage
Alice Eastwold - The Gbaya Dance of Diang
Philip Noss - Ordinary and Extraordinary People
Kombo Samuel - Sickness, Medicine, and Sorcery in Duru Society
Kadia Matthiew, Lee Bohnhoff - Sickness, Misfortune, and Healing among the Gbaya
Cecilia Noss - Tradition and Modernism on Horseback
Badoma André
Faith and Belief
Poem: Everything Tries
Haldor Jon Noss
- The Gbaya and the Sudan Mission: 1924 to the Present
Philip Burnham - An Interpretation of Gbaya Religious Practice
Philip Noss - Social Pressure for Religious Conformity in the Fulani Community
Ronald Nelson - Is God Vənεb or Yamma?
Bouba Bernard - The Chamba Rite of Vɔɔma;ma
Bouba Bernard - LaBi: A Gbaya Initiation Rite
Thomas Christensen - Rites of Reconciliation in Traditional Gbaya Society
Thomas Christensen - Wanto and Crocodile: The Story of Joseph
Philip Noss - A Meeting of Biblical Wisdom with Gbaya Wisdom
Thomas Christensen - Karnu: Witchdoctor or Prophet?
Thomas Christensen
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Cameroon
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7906