Ethnology, Volume 41University of Pittsburgh, 2002 - Anthropology |
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Page 194
... BODY Underlying these fears of physiological pollution and witchcraft was the perception of the body and its boundaries as both permeable and partible . According to informants , a person's body comprised four overlapping components ...
... BODY Underlying these fears of physiological pollution and witchcraft was the perception of the body and its boundaries as both permeable and partible . According to informants , a person's body comprised four overlapping components ...
Page 195
... body while he or she was still alive . In these narratives , different body parts carried different symbolic meanings . When built into the foundation of a building , a skull ensured good business . The victim's hands were used to ...
... body while he or she was still alive . In these narratives , different body parts carried different symbolic meanings . When built into the foundation of a building , a skull ensured good business . The victim's hands were used to ...
Page 204
... body with goat's chyme and an elderly woman washed the body of her mother - in - law . Elsie's affines then carried her to a water drum behind the house where they washed the chyme from her body . Finally , Elsie and her mother - in ...
... body with goat's chyme and an elderly woman washed the body of her mother - in - law . Elsie's affines then carried her to a water drum behind the house where they washed the chyme from her body . Finally , Elsie and her mother - in ...
Contents
A History of Power | 1 |
Contested Ethnicity | 27 |
Bugis Migration and Modes of Adaptation to Local Situations | 51 |
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