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UNINA9910219996003321 |
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Neckebrouck Valeer |
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Irua : circumcision songs of the Kikuyu / / Valeer Neckebrouck |
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Leuven : , : Leuven University Press, , 1998 |
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1 online resource (86 pages) |
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African popular literature has justly been described as the incontestable reservoir of the values, sensibilities, esthetics and achievements of traditional African thought and imagination and as the basic source for understanding the traditional African mind. Because it bears unmistakable traces of social change, it also becomes an invaluable source for the study of indigenous perceptions of shifting relationships, developing ideologies and evolving reactions to economic, social and political experience.This book contains twenty-eight traditional circumcision songs of the Kikuyu people, taperecorded in January 1972 during a celebration organized on the eve of the circumcision of a young boy from Kiambu, the principal town of the southern part of Kikuyu country. Because numerous problems of understanding and interpreting remain to be solved, the English translation which accompanies the original kikuyu text is tentative and provisional.In the introduction the author explains why he nevertheless decided in favour of publication. Stating that he is serving ethnographic purposes, not linguistic or literary ones, his argumentation echos Evans-Pritchard authoritative plea for sharing with professional public as much as possible of what one has gathered as fieldnotes. To confer upon ethnographic documents the status of printed material, however defective their condition by the standards of armchair scholars, constitutes the equivalent of storing potsherds, jawbones or bits of fabric: the way to save them for future generations of researchers as |
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well as autochtonous readers. And one cannot know how valuable what may appear to one at the time to be trifle may be to a student in the future who may be asking questions which one did not ask oneself. |
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UNINA9910915653203321 |
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Fresco Jean-Pierre |
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Les Larmes : La Conscience et L'émotion |
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Paris : , : Editions L'Harmattan, , 2020 |
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©2020 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (175 pages) |
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Jean-Pierre Fresco's book explores the complex interrelations between consciousness, emotion, and tears. By integrating perspectives from philosophy, art, psychology, religious history, and musical aesthetics, Fresco examines the enigmatic nature and power of tears. The book delves into the anatomy and physiology of tears as well as their mystical and religious significance. It engages with the works of renowned thinkers such as Antonio Damasio and Joseph LeDoux, providing a comprehensive analysis that challenges traditional psychoanalytic discourse. Fresco emphasizes the importance of emotional expression and the unique truths revealed through tears, arguing against reductionist materialism. This work is aimed at readers interested in the philosophical and psychological aspects of human emotion and consciousness. |
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