Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte : Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession - Michael Lambek

On the East African island of Mayotte, Islam co-exists with two other systems of understanding and interpreting the world around its inhabitants: cosmology and spirit-mediumship. In a witty, evocative style accessible to both the specialist and non-specialist reader, Michael Lambek provides a significant contribution to writing on African systems of thought, on local forms of religious and therapeutic practice, on social accountability, and on the place of explicit forms of knowledge in the analysis of non-western societies. The "objectified" textual knowledge characteristic of Islam and of co Knowledge and Practice in Mayotte : Local Discourses of Islam, Sorcery and Spirit Possession - Michael Lambek od authora Michael Lambek a nakladatelství za skvělé ceny na e-shopu Martinus.cz