Grafting Old Rootstock: Studies in Culture and Religion of the Chamba, Duru, Fula, and Gbaya of Cameroun
Author(s):
Noss, Philip A., editor Description:
Studies the culture and religion of the Chamba, Duru, Gula, and Gbaya of Cameroon.
Discusses attempts of expatriates and Africans to ask questions, to learn, and to interpret what is important in the lives and traditions of African societies in the light of the Christian Church.
About the Author
Phil Noss was the UBS Translation Services Coordinator and Peter Renju was a UBS Translation Consultant in East Africa. He is now retired.
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
Contributors
Series:
Series Volume:
14
Issue Date:
1982
Extent:
xvi, 247 pages
ISBN 13:
978-0883121658
Subject:
Ethnography
ISBN 10:
0883121654
Size:
6 × 9 × 0.55 in
Weight:
0.9 lb
Field:
Country:
Cameroon
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Content Language: