African spiritualities.
Victory Square| N° d'inventaire | 23034 |
| Format | 28.5 x 32 |
| Détails | 564 p., numerous color photographs, bound with dust jacket. |
| Publication | Paris, 2020 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782809917437 |
This book of photographs by Christoph Henning, a German ethnologist who has gained the trust of tribes, takes you on a journey of discovery through the main spiritualities of Africa. The author was thus able to photograph the rituals and explains them in his text. Gods, spirits, ceremonies, evil spells, witchcraft and magic, oracles, healings, remedies, trance, transition, secret societies, healers, kings... Discover the passage into the spirit world (death), Islam and the cult of possession, voodoo, celestial Christians, Ngui - the secret society of the gorilla -, the Baka pygmies, the Oku and the Grassland of Cameroon, Papa Joe... As well as the techniques (bronze casting), the cult objects.
This book of photographs by Christoph Henning, a German ethnologist who has gained the trust of tribes, takes you on a journey of discovery through the main spiritualities of Africa. The author was thus able to photograph the rituals and explains them in his text. Gods, spirits, ceremonies, evil spells, witchcraft and magic, oracles, healings, remedies, trance, transition, secret societies, healers, kings... Discover the passage into the spirit world (death), Islam and the cult of possession, voodoo, celestial Christians, Ngui - the secret society of the gorilla -, the Baka pygmies, the Oku and the Grassland of Cameroon, Papa Joe... As well as the techniques (bronze casting), the cult objects.