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DEVISCH, René, Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Ecological Healing Cult Among the Yaka, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993, x, 334 pp., 0 226 14362 7

DEVISCH, René, Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Ecological Healing Cult Among the Yaka,... 221 men's oratory and women's song and dance in funeral rituals. Their concluding point that performance does not just reflect the religious sphere is an important one, echoed elsewhere in the book. This collection is probably too diverse and uneven to serve as a `reader' or main text for courses on African religion, if that is what its publishers hoped. But it should figure widely on reading lists for sev- eral of the particular items it contains. School of Oriental and African Studies University of London J.D.Y. PEEL DEVISCH, René, Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Ecological Healing Cult Among the Yaka, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993, x, 334 pp., 0 226 14362 7. This book sets out to describe the healing practices of the Yaka peo- ple of south-western Zaire, in all their manifest complexity, concen- trating on one of the cults, that of the Khita which aims at relieving gynaecological disorders, specifically infertility. The Yaka have twenty or so initiatory cults which are invoked to redress serious illness and these cults of affliction and basic assumptions of ritual and therapy share much in common with those of other eastern and southern African peoples. What http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Religion in Africa Brill

DEVISCH, René, Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Ecological Healing Cult Among the Yaka, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993, x, 334 pp., 0 226 14362 7

Journal of Religion in Africa , Volume 26 (2): 221 – Jan 1, 1996

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Brill
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© 1996 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0022-4200
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1570-0666
DOI
10.1163/157006696X00136
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Abstract

221 men's oratory and women's song and dance in funeral rituals. Their concluding point that performance does not just reflect the religious sphere is an important one, echoed elsewhere in the book. This collection is probably too diverse and uneven to serve as a `reader' or main text for courses on African religion, if that is what its publishers hoped. But it should figure widely on reading lists for sev- eral of the particular items it contains. School of Oriental and African Studies University of London J.D.Y. PEEL DEVISCH, René, Weaving the Threads of Life: The Khita Gyn-Ecological Healing Cult Among the Yaka, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1993, x, 334 pp., 0 226 14362 7. This book sets out to describe the healing practices of the Yaka peo- ple of south-western Zaire, in all their manifest complexity, concen- trating on one of the cults, that of the Khita which aims at relieving gynaecological disorders, specifically infertility. The Yaka have twenty or so initiatory cults which are invoked to redress serious illness and these cults of affliction and basic assumptions of ritual and therapy share much in common with those of other eastern and southern African peoples. What

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