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Contested Measures of Humanity in African Suffering and Healing
M. Janzen, John
M. Janzen, John
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"The complex world of health and healing in Africa may be accessed through the vivid images seen in sculptures, paintings, and stories. These African traditions of representation that share in the universal search for the meaning of suffering are well known for contrasting beauty and health with representations of the bestial, disease, and death (Blier). Health and beauty is often associated with the stages of the life course – birth, youth, adulthood, prestige of elderhood, death and beyond – or the chain of continuity of life heard in many a proverb or speech that refers to “the living, the ancestors, and the yet unborn.”"(pg 7)
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2011
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