Ritual, Embodiment, and Agency : Making Religion in Contemporary West Africa - Agnieszka Kedzierska Manzon blhhgf family and cultural memory

family and cultural memory

Despite all their differences

the supernatural

April 14th

isolation and friendship

Ritual, Embodiment, and Agency : Making Religion in Contemporary West Africa - Agnieszka Kedzierska Manzon blhhgf family and cultural memoryAn English translation of a French study of the rituals of the Mande people in West Africa. Ritual, Embodiment, and Agencyshowsthrough rich ethnographic analysis how Mande people in West Africa resort to multiple ritual practices to address an "episteme of doubt." In the context of armed conflicts and terrorist attacks, climate disruptions, financial crises, and illness, members of "hunter societies," experts who handle certain agentive artifacts, and