Transformation and power in Moba (northern Togo) initiation rites
Among the Moba of northern Togo, initiation into the voluntary and secret association of Kondi offers men and women a way of achieving a measure of social and ritual power. For the Moba, accepted notions about ancestral authority, specialist knowledge, and the spatial realm of the wilderness inform...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
1995
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Africa
Year: 1995, Volume: 65, Issue: 1, Pages: 58-78 |
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Togo
B Cultural anthropology B People B Religion B Cult B Tree trunk Ethnology B Traditional culture B Initiation |