Genii of the River Niger

Name: Genii of the River Niger
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ISBN: 9780226290515

ISBN-10: 0226290514

ISBN-13: 9780226290515

Edition: 1993

Authors: Jean-Marie Gibbal, Beth G. Raps

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The river Niger, a source of life and danger for the people in impoverished eastern Mali, is also the origin of elaborate mythology. From his travels through Mali and down the Niger in a dugout canoe, Jean-Marie Gibbal has created a personal documentary of the cultures of the region. The result is at once an ethnography of cultures in crisis and a poetic evocation of the environment and people he encountered. Gibbal portrays the river as the dominant, cohesive force among people in the face of social and environmental strife. He focuses on the Ghimbala healing cult, which centers on the river, and how the cult structures social relations in the region. Gibbal vividly recreations the…

Book details

List price: $106.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 2/9/1994
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 0.02" wide x 0.04" long x 0.00" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English



Foreword



Translator's


Note


Glossary


Preparations



On the River Niger



The Emperor and the Magician



Between Above and Below



Children of the River



Live Devils



Separate in Order to Heal



The Genii Club



The Solitude of the Gaw



From Experience to Fiction Thoughts from the Between Postscript



The Meaning of Sheikou Hamadou and Wanda Samba



Moussa's Great Deeds



The Heinous Crime of Komaiuml;ga and Djini Maiuml;rama



Table of the Principal Plants Used in the Ghimbala



A Kanji


Bibliography


Index