The Sorcerer''s Burden : The Ethnographic Saga of a Global Family

Name: The Sorcerer''s Burden
Brand: Springer International Publishing AG
SKU: 9783319811246
Price: 3950 KES
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ISBN: 9783319811246

Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2016 ed.

by Paul Stoller

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology

ISBN-10 331981124X

ISBN-13 9783319811246

Edition Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 2016 ed.

Publisher Springer International Publishing AG

Imprint Palgrave Macmillan

Country of Manufacture CH

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jun 14th, 2018

Print length 209 Pages

Product Classification: Fiction Fiction & related items Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography Social and cultural anthropology

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This ethnographic novel follows the life of Omar Dia, the oldest son of a West African sorcerer. When his father falls ill and dies, the great sorcerer vomits a small metal chain onto his chest. Following the path of his ancestors, Omar swallows the chain, becoming his father's successor, which means that he takes on the sorcerer's burden.

This book emerges from the author''s 35 years of research and thought about the Songhay people of Niger. This ethnographic novel follows the life of Omar Dia, the oldest son of a West African sorcerer. When his father falls ill and dies, the great sorcerer vomits a small metal chain onto his chest. Following the path of his ancestors, Omar swallows the chain, becoming his father''s successor, which means that he takes on the sorcerer''s burden. The book also describes how custodians of traditional knowledge are creatively adapting to the forces of globalization-all in a highly accessible narrative text.

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