1st Edition
The Law of the Lifegivers The Domestication of Desire
290 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
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African societies are gifted with a rich creativity, often expressed in intimate corporeal terms. For the Yaka people of southwestern Congo, such manifestations can have individual, social, or even cosmic significance. The Law of the Lifegivers investigates the importance among the Yaka of body and space in their daily life, exercise of power, and initiatic traditions. Through this analysis,... Read more
1. ITINERARY AND METHODS 2. From Anthropology to Psychoanalysis 3. From Psychoanalysis to Anthropology 4. THE YAKA: PRINCIPAL FIGURES 5. The Yaka Divination: The Birth of Uterine Discourse 6. The Therapist: Healing the Affects By Remodeling the Body 7. Death and the Dialectic of Limits 8. INTERSECTIONS 9. The Paramount Chief: The Introduction of the Order of Ethical Law 10. Sorcery and Fetish 11. Four Figures of the Yaka Unconscious
Biography
Claude Brodeur, René Devisch
