Tricksters and Trancers: Bushman Religion and Society

ISBN-13: 9780253213440 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 304 str.

Mathias Guenther

Opis

..". a first-rate piece of scholarship... an invaluable summary and commentary on the multilingual literature on Bushman] people." ChoiceThe trickster and trance dancer are the guides through Bushman (or San) religion, a world of ambiguity and contradiction, and of enchantment. The two figures, who in Bushman belief are symbolically equivalent and mystically linked, embody these antistructural traits."