The Hatchet's Blood

The Hatchet's Blood
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Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Total Pages : 198
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ISBN-10 : 9780816551446
ISBN-13 : 0816551448
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Book Synopsis The Hatchet's Blood by : Marc R. Schloss

Download or read book The Hatchet's Blood written by Marc R. Schloss and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Amaury Talbot Prize for African Anthropology The ritual complexes of the Ehing, a farming people of southern Senegal, embody an elaborate set of prohibitions on social behavior and prescribe the general rules of Ehing social organization. Power is distributed and maintained in Ehing culture by the concept of Odieng (“hatchet”), which as a spirit acts upon human beings much as an ax does upon a tree, falling from above to punish its victims for transgression. Marc R. Schloss’s ethnography of the Ehing is a study of the meaning of Odieng’s power, explaining why its rules are so essential to the Ehing way of life.


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