Denise H. Kenyon-Rouvinez, G. Adler, G. Corbetta, Gianfilippo Cuneo
{"title":"Siblings","authors":"Denise H. Kenyon-Rouvinez, G. Adler, G. Corbetta, Gianfilippo Cuneo","doi":"10.1057/9780230116207_2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230116207_2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":407188,"journal":{"name":"Speak, Bird, Speak Again","volume":"205 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122516150","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Husbands and Wives","authors":"W. Macgaffey","doi":"10.2307/j.ctv269fvvr.15","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv269fvvr.15","url":null,"abstract":"Politics of Metaphor in OyoYoruba Religion,J Lorand Matory, Minneapolis University of Minnesota Press A missionary among the Kongo in Zaire in 1890 claimed that it was inconceivable to them that death meant a cessation of being, and in my experience it is still generally true that they think of death as life continued in another place, which they call \"America.\" In any society, the fundamental distinctions, most difficult to question and most burdened with ritual prescriptions, are those between the living and the dead, between men and women, and among people, objects and animals; but to say so is merely to introduce a host of questions and complexities, since the content of these distinctions varies from one society to another. The Kongolese example implies the radical untranslatability of ideas about \"personhood\" and \"death.\" The same is true of \"women\" and \"men,\" who are not necessarily the persons we thought they","PeriodicalId":407188,"journal":{"name":"Speak, Bird, Speak Again","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127694011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}