Winner of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, The Hatchet's Blood is the first ethnography of the Ehing, a farming people of southern Senegal. The ritual complexes of the Ehing embody an elaborate set of prohibitions on social behavior and prescribe the general rules of Ehing social organization. Power is distributed and maintained by the concept of Odieng ("hatchet"), which as a spirit acts upon human beings much as an ax does upon a tree, falling from above to punish its ...
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Winner of the Royal Anthropological Institute's Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology, The Hatchet's Blood is the first ethnography of the Ehing, a farming people of southern Senegal. The ritual complexes of the Ehing embody an elaborate set of prohibitions on social behavior and prescribe the general rules of Ehing social organization. Power is distributed and maintained by the concept of Odieng ("hatchet"), which as a spirit acts upon human beings much as an ax does upon a tree, falling from above to punish its victims for transgression. Marc R. Schloss's ethnography is a study of the meaning of Odieng's power, explaining why its rules are so essential to the Ehing way of life.
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15+178 pages, bibliography, illustrations, maps: an anthropological study of the EHING people of Senegal, their customs, ritual, myth & belief; glossy limp covers, vg+
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Good. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. With dust jacket. 178 p. Anthropology of Form and Meaning. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.
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