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Of Water and the Spirit: Ritual, Magic and Initiation in
the Life of an African Shaman (Paperback) |
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Author: Patrice Malidoma Some
Price: 16.00
Published:
ISBN: 0140194967
Pages: 320
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From Publishers Weekly
Born in West Africa in the early 1950s--the author is indefinite about
the year--Some was kidnapped at age four by a French Jesuit missionary
to be trained as a priest, for the next 15 years enduring the harsh
regimen of a seminary where his native language and tribal traditions
were systematically suppressed. At age 20 he escaped, but when he
returned to his Dugara people in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) they
rejected him as an outsider. To reconnect with his native culture, Some
underwent a month-long initiation into shamanism during which he reports
that he journeyed to the underworld, became a bird, then a porcupine and
was buried alive. A self-described "man of two worlds," Some, who holds
a doctoral degree in political science from the Sorbonne and one in
literature from Brandeis, is a speaker at men's movement conferences in
the US. This vivid autobiography takes readers into a world of black
magic, palpable spirits, walking dead people, force fields,
transdimensional journeys--a world as strange as anything in imaginative
fiction. QPB selection; author tour.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to
an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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