Autor: Gottlieb Alma Gottlieb

What does a move from a village in the West African rain forest to a West African community in a European city entail? What about a shift from a Greek sheep-herding community to working with evictees …

When a new baby arrives among the Beng people of West Africa, they see it not as being born, but as being reincarnated after a rich life in a previous world. Far from being a tabula rasa, a Beng infa …

In this companion volume to Parallel Worlds, Alma Gottliebexplores ideology and social practices among the Beng people of Coted’Ivoire. Employing symbolic and postmodern perspectives, she highlightst …