Anthropos: Anthropos, 41/44.1946/49,1-3

Anthropos, 41/44.1946/49,1-3

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Structure Type:: Journal

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-714789

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Persistent identifier:: BV041701500

Title:: Anthropos

Sub Title:: internationale Zeitschrift für Völker- u. Sprachenkunde

Other Titles:: Anthropos

Place of Publication:: Fribourg

Publisher:: Ed. St. Paul, Anthropos-Institut

Year of Publication:: 1906

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

Domain:: Social and cultural anthropology > General overview

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Structure Type:: Journal Volume

Works URN (URL):: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-709555

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Persistent identifier:: DE-11-001871421

Title:: Anthropos, 41/44.1946/49,1-3

Year of Publication:: 1946

Call Number:: LA 1118-41/44,1-3

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Structure Type:: Journal Issue

Title:: Bd. 41 - 44, 1946-49, Heft 1 - 3

Other person:: Schmidt, Wilhelm

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

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Title:: An African Culture of Today in the country between the baNtu Negro and the Semitic Arab. Some Aspects of Spiritual Religion of the aZandé, nick-named "Niam-niam, peoples of African Equatoria

Other person:: Philipps, Tracy

Collection:: Journals and Newspapers > Journals of Ethnology

An African Culture of Today. 211 region are baNtu-speakers, I had the fortune, by chance to witness what appeared to be a similar case of a man who had just been found wandering far from any habitation in a dazed condition, and was being brought in by his relatives from the forest, where he was alleged to have been seized and possessed by spirits. Unfortunately I did not speak the tribal language, though I had acquired just that sufficiency which so often gives rise to misun derstandings. There was, however, no difficulty in communicating with the people in the commercial lingua franca of the Congo. The subject was a young man who was stated by his relatives never to have been previously anything but healthy. His condition and appearance were quite pitiable. His whole body was bruised and lacerated. His mouth was flecked with foam. The swollen eyes goggled half open with a kind of stricken stare. He appeared to be in a state of trembling terror, which oddly enough did not manifest itself so much when I approached him as it did towards his own relatives, who seemed to be doing everything in their power to calm and nurse him. When approached by them, he threw himself on all fours with his face on the ground. He gnawed at grass and leaves. He made motions with his already bleeding hands as if wishing to burrow underground, perhaps to hide himself. The fleeting impression on my mind was of seeing a creature possessed by a demon, of a human being being recently invaded by the nature and instincts of a beast of the field. I recollect that at the time there passed through my mind the experience of one Nebuchadnezzar, who “was driven from men and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagle’s feathers and his nails like bird’s claws.” The only rational suggestion that I could make to myself was that, following on some aggression or imprudence of his own, the man had been set upon by some of the larger anthropoid apes, which we had ourselves frequently heard and occasionally seen in the forest. But the people would have none of it. They were apparently in no doubt as to the cause : Ndoki abulaki ye kuna na jamba — “An evil spirit did him harm there in the jungle.” Ndoki asir’ apiki ye, na kubuka tanyo naye nyoso — “An evil spirit has assaulted him and broken his mind entirely 16 .” 16 16 The language is baNgalla (liNgala).

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