Author: Devisch, René.
Title: Weaving the Threads of Life. The Khita Gyn-Eco-Logical Healing Cult Among the Yaka.
Description: University of Chicago Press 1993. Printed wraps. illustrated 334pp large 8vo. 0.5kg. A Fine unread copy. ISBN: 9780226143620 For the Yaka of south western Zaire, infertility is a tear in the fabric of life, and the Khita fertility ritual reweaves the damaged strands. Author offers and extended analysis of the Khita cult which leads to an original account of the workings of ritual healing.

Keywords: anthropology africa african south southern fertility rituals zaire khita ghyn-eco-logical


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