Weaving the threads of life : the Khita gyn-eco-logical healing cult among the Yaka

Author(s)

• Devisch, Renaat

Bibliographic Information

Weaving the threads of life : the Khita gyn-eco-logical healing cult among the Yaka

René Devisch

University of Chicago Press, 1993

• pbk.

Note

Based on the author's Se recréer femme. Chapters 2-3 and 1-7 have been expanded, and chapters l, 4, and 8, the prologue, and epilogue are completely new

Includes bibliographical references (p. [315]-323) and index

Details

• NCID: BA21847727
• ISBN:
  • 0226143619
  • 0226143627
• LCCN: 93000355
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: x, 334 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : DT650.B38
  • DC20 : 306.4/61
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Yaka (African people) -- Medicine
  • LCSH : Yaka (African people) -- Rites and ceremonies
  • LCSH : Cults -- Zaire -- Kinshasa
  • LCSH : Traditional medicine -- Zaire -- Kinshasa
  • LCSH : Infertility, Female -- Zaire -- Kinshasa