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The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and

The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community Paperback - 1999

by Some, Malidoma Patrice

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Penguin Putnam, Inc, 1999. Very good paperback. Trade Paperback. Very Good.
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  • Title The Healing Wisdom of Africa: Finding Life Purpose Through Nature, Ritual, and Community
  • Author Some, Malidoma Patrice
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Putnam, Inc, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
  • Date 1999
  • Features Illustrated, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 240619-D05
  • ISBN 9780874779912 / 087477991X
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.03 x 6 x 0.93 in (22.94 x 15.24 x 2.36 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
    • Ethnic Orientation: African
    • Topical: New Age
  • Library of Congress subjects Spiritual healing, Dagaaba (African people) - Rites and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99024829
  • Dewey Decimal Code 299.64

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Summary

Through The Healing Wisdom of Africa, readers can come to understand that the life of indigenous and traditional people is a paradigm for an intimate relationship with the natural world that both surrounds us and is within us. The book is the most complete study of the role ritual plays in the lives of African people--and the role it can play for seekers in the West.

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Malidoma Patrice Somé, born in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) West Africa, is initiated in the ancestral traditions of his tribe, and is a medicine man and diviner in the Dagra culture. He holds three master's degrees and two doctorates from Sorbonne and Brandeis University, and has taught at the University of Michigan. He currently devotes himself to speaking and, with his wife, Sobonfu, conducting intensive workshops throughout the United States.

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What the indigenous world offers to the modern world centers around the understanding of the concepts of healing ritual and community.

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Malidoma Patrice Som, born in Upper Volta (now Burkina Faso) West Africa, is initiated in the ancestral traditions of his tribe, and is a medicine man and diviner in the Dagra culture. He holds three master's degrees and two doctorates from Sorbonne and Brandeis University, and has taught at the University of Michigan. He currently devotes himself to speaking and, with his wife, Sobonfu, conducting intensive workshops throughout the United States.

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