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434 pages • first pub 2004 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 0226305023
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
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 infant is thought to begin its life filled with spir...
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434 pages • first pub 2004 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 0226305023
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
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 infant is thought to begin its life filled with spir...