"The Daasanech of South-Western Ethiopia: Concepts Around Prosperity and Misfortune The question that is taken up in this lecture is how models which deal with prosperity and misfortune and with sickness and health are related to action-models of restoration and defence. I try to illuminate the connections between the experience of cosmos, body and social world, between rituals and the prosperity of the individual and his social group. Misfortune is always a consequence of a broken relationship between man and the social and cosmic order. As such, it can be seen as a "magical" punishment because of "wrong" behaviour. To restore health is to take away the punishment through appropriate action in which both the offender and the victim (or his social group) are involved. Starting from a short explication of the social, cosmic and bodily models, I concentrate on the concepts that deal with the causes of sickness and infertility and focus on some of the principles that shape the restoration-rituals. The Daasanech of South-Western Ethiopia: Concepts Around Prosperity and Misfortune The question that is taken up in this lecture is how models which deal with prosperity and misfortune and with sickness and health are related to action-models of restoration and defence. I try to illuminate the connections between the experience of cosmos, body and social world, between rituals and the prosperity of the individual and his social group. Misfortune is always a consequence of a broken relationship between man and the social and cosmic order. As such, it can be seen as a "magical" punishment because of "wrong" behaviour. To restore health is to take away the punishment through appropriate action in which both the offender and the victim (or his social group) are involved. Starting from a short explication of the social, cosmic and bodily models, I concentrate on the concepts that deal with the causes of sickness and infertility and focus on some of the principles that shape the restoration-rituals."
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
1998
توصيف ظاهري
85-98
عنوان
Afrika Focus
شماره جلد
14/1
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
2031-356X
اصطلاحهای موضوعی کنترل نشده
اصطلاح موضوعی
body
اصطلاح موضوعی
cosmos
اصطلاح موضوعی
Daasanech
اصطلاح موضوعی
medical anthropology
اصطلاح موضوعی
rituals
نام شخص به منزله سر شناسه - (مسئولیت معنوی درجه اول )