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- Title: Neighbors, Strangers, Witches, and Culture-Heroes
- Author : Susan Rasmussen
- Release Date : January 24, 2013
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 771 KB
Description
This book examines alleged “superhuman” powers associated with smith/artisans in five African societies. It discusses their ritual and social roles, mythico-histories, and changing relationships between specialists and patrons. Rasmussen uses primary source data from her research in Tuareg communities and compares this to secondary data on four other African societies.